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A Thought 0
- federal Indian law
- May 20, 2020
As far as the colonizers were concerned, we were never supposed to survive let alone master the papal documents and legal doctrines of Christian domination that nearly led to our complete eradication. We’ve walked through the fire of a centuries-long genocidal onslaught, and, yet, we press on. We have scars but we’re still standing. We’ve
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Examples of Domination and Racism in an Excerpt from the book America Moves West (Third Edition), Robert E. Riegel, New York: Henry Holt and Company (1957).0
- federal Indian law
- May 19, 2020
REMOVING THE INDIAN MENACE Early settlers in the West were surrounded by numerous dangers, by no means the least was the Indian. While the Indian was in many ways an interesting and admirable person, he made a very unpleasant neighbor for the white frontiersman. From time to time, and without due formality, he went to
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Colonization and the Human Construction of a Reality System of Domination 1
- federal Indian law
- May 18, 2020
Prior to the first voyage of Columbus in 1492, the original nations of the two continents that are now called North and South America (the “Western Hemisphere”) were living completely free and independent. The vast Atlantic Ocean separated those distinct and free nations from Western Christendom (Western Europe). Today, we, as the descendants of our
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Are We As Native People Living Inside and Subject to the Mental World of the White Man?0
- federal Indian law
- May 18, 2020
In Red Man’s Land—White Man’s Law (1971), Wilcomb Washburn says he “hopes to describe” what he calls “the process by which the Indian moved from sovereign to ward to citizen.” (emphasis added) It would have been more accurate for him to have said it was the Christian Europeans thoughts and ideas that had “moved” “the
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An explanation of the pattern of domination in the Papal Bull “Romanus Pontifex” (Roman Pontiff) issued by Pope Nicholas V in 1454 0
- federal Indian law
- May 18, 2020
Below we see yet another example of the background pattern that is brought to the foreground and revealed by using the Domination Translator (the red lettering). According to Reinhard Bendix, in Kings Or People and the Mandate to Rule (1978), p. 254: The papal bull of 1454 granted Prince Henry the Navigator (1394-1460) “the right,
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Was the United States Founded As a Democracy?0
- federal Indian law
- May 17, 2020
In his splendid book The Lawless Law of Nations (1925), Sterling E. Edmunds says that governments may be defined as “groups of men possessing arbitrary power over other men.” (p. 426) If Edmunds is right, the idea of “self-government” is not a remedy of much merit for American Indians, for such a system would
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