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Steven Newcomb is a Shawnee-Lenape scholar and author. He has been studying and writing about U.S. federal Indian law and policy since the early 1980s, particularly the application of international law to Indigenous nations and peoples. Mr. Newcomb is the Director of the Indigenous Law Institute, which he co-founded with Birgil Kills Straight, a Traditional Headman and Elder of the Oglala Lakota Nation. Together they have carried on a global campaign challenging imperial Vatican documents from the fifteenth century. Those documents resulted in the decimation of Original Nations and Peoples of Mother Earth and thereby deprived the planet of life-ways, sustainable ecosystems, and Sacred Teachings. Newcomb’s book Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery (2008) relies upon recent findings in cognitive theory and a semantic analysis of the Latin and English versions of 15th century Vatican documents. He has identified the little noticed patterns found in those documents and a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, which claimed a right of a “Christian prince or people” to discover and exert a right of domination (dominorum Christianorum) over the lands of “heathens and infidels.”
The result of Christendom’s legacy of domination and dehumanization has resulted in the near destruction of thousands of years of spiritual and ecological wisdom developed by our original nations. The remaining understandings of the need for reverence, honor, and respect are vital for the healing of humans and Mother Earth at this time.
Documentary - The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking The Domination Code
Groundbreaking documentary Directed by: Sheldon Wolfchild, Co-Produced by: Steve Newcomb, Narration by: Buffy Sainte-Marie
A Story of Historical Truth, Spirituality, and resistance. Told on behalf of the Original Nations and Peoples of Great Turtle Island and elsewhere on Mother Earth. We are still here, and still rightfully free.
A film based on the book Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery, by Steven T. Newcomb. Today, in 2015, Chief Justice John Marshall’s distinction between “Christian people” and “heathens” in Johnson v. M’Intosh (1823) is still treated by the U.S. Supreme Court as valid law for the United States. The Supreme Court has used the claimed right of Christian discovery and domination in the Johnson ruling as its underlying rationale for every ruling that it has handed down since 1823 regarding our original nations.
Cristobal Colon (Columbus) and other colonizers laid claim to the lands of original nations on the basis of the idea that Christians had a biblical right to discover and dominate non- Christian lands. This doctrine of ancient Christendom, sup- ported by papal edicts, continues to serve as the conceptual foundation of the political and legal system of the United States, and as the conceptual foundation of other dominating political systems elsewhere in the world in relation to original
nations.
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