The "Doctrine of Discovery" justified indigenous genocide in 1493. Here's why it must be retracted.
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- Опубліковано 13 жов 2019
- Cities and states across the country are acknowledging the devastating history of colonialism by rejecting the federal holiday of Columbus Day and instead celebrating Indigenous Peoples' Day to honor centuries of indigenous resistance. We speak with Iakowi:he'ne' Oakes, executive director of the American Indian Community House in New York. She is a Mohawk woman of the Snipe Clan. Oakes explains the significance of the so-called "Doctrine of Discovery," which in 1493 was invoked by Pope Alexander VI to establish the basis for Christian settlers to colonize land occupied by indigenous peoples. "If you're not Christian people, you're not considered human," she says of the document. "Basically, we can't have title to land if we are indigenous and non-Christian." She and other indigenous advocates are calling on the Vatican to retract the doctrine.
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As an native American I have bought back my land , and I own my own company. I wont let what someone else has done to my ancestors destroy my life. They stole our land in the name of God shame on them, but I wont let that stop me from being who I am. Native American and Proud of it. 🌍
What nation do you come from
I am a settler and colonizer decendent. Some of my ancestors were killed by Native American tribes and tried to take the land that was not occupied at that time those Indians claimed. They became hard working farmers and alone owned slaves but humbled themselves after the Civil War ended. Some of my ancestors were Puritians, Scot-Irish, German and Scandinavian immigrants who wanted freedom of religion and opportunities. My Italian and Irish ancestors face challenges along with discrimination because they were Catholic or were not Anglo stock in the 1800's. I am a proud White American who loves her White Culture and rich multi European American Heritage. I will continue to strive to stay in this land and will stand ger ground. The land was nit stolen it was conqoured. It won't change or destroy whi I am. I'm White European American and Proud if it. 👏
So you the product of colonizers
As an indigenous being... We never called ourselves indian... We were not allowed to call ourselves that we were to dark.... We were always here but we could not go with the lighter part of our family.. So we lost and forgot thru generations our spiritual connection to them and also that part of us.... Help us remember as well please.... We know there something important that we should do but it has been forgotten... Help us remember please.
We can't help you remember. You need to look yourself. Your hate for white people will not help you know your quest.
Addressing The internaly embedded issues of running under these systemic strutures of linguistic imperialism are entwined into and deeply impact our internal perseptions of indigious peoples. our abilty to "reflect" upon, finger, (I now see you) and internaly recognise there impact these dark seeds is of great importance in these times.
@@brianperkins6121 So where do we start.... Meditation, Moon magic, Shadow work, Diet, North being South originally.. Them teaching our children, feeding our children... Churching our women, policing our men... While charging us a currency to live on our land.... How do them out of our land.. Constitution was a contract that permitted them to be here. 2019 that contractual agreement was over... When are they leaving????
I've long been sickened by the observance of "Columbus Day". When Columbus landed on this continent he horribly mistreated the indigenous peoples with torture, enslavement, mutilation, genocide, and European illnesses. Growing up with the Sioux in South Dakota I was horrified by the mistreatment and genocide that the white man has practiced there. Of all the "minorities" in the United States, the Native American has suffered the most profoundly. Columbus didn't "discover America".....these people were already here and had been for over a thousand years. Let us stop the observance of Columbus Day and, instead celebrate our indigenous brothers.
Agreed! We all need to support all indigenous groups as the First Nation are the true Americans.
Yes, the first Americans, same in Canada, the Caribbean, Latin, Central, and South America.
there was no America until the White Man came!!!
Reclaim the health of ALL peoples and end the needless suffering of animals. *GO VEGAN*
@Cerah Fang as opposed to the sea-based cultures? how many cultures pre-1800 were anti-slavery? progressivism, ever heard of it?
@Steffen Zander depends on what kind of progress you're talking about. in this case, I'm using the term to describe a betterment for all animals, including human animals
Stand with you from Aotearoa/NZL🖤
Me too
Keep the name New Zealand forever! 🇳🇿
@@brittanyhayes1043 englands the name for your people sis
@@brittanyhayes1043 looks like you support genocide then too? Get educated
Would have been powerful to have Chief Warhorse speak on this day to bridge an inclusive representation
Yes.
Columbus discovered America's for Europe. It was already there. Nobody buys beliefs from then. Didn't a Pope issue a renunciation of that, long ago? If not, someone should ask for a formal statement. In the meantime, perhaps more publishing houses translating from Spanish to English to furnish English speaking countries with translations of the best Hispanic literature might be worth doing. It could be a co-op endeavour.
I never heard of this.
no words . . .
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read Pagans in a Christian Land by Steven Newcomb.Key researcher on Doctrine of Discovery, Native lawyer. See the Navajo dude who is running for President US as an Independent's site. See lots old videos you tube by Russell Means and even John Trudell. See books by Prof. Robin Dunbar Ortiz.
Damn colonizers stripped me of my culture after stealing me from my community! Judgement has come to right their wrongs,
Down goes Babylon. HalleluYAH
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RESPECT.
All humans are colonized and they fight colonization. This is the mode of war since the beginning. The indigenous people are not one group either. They came over in waves. They had wars over hunting or farming grounds. Some of those wars were genocidal. The Aztec sacrificed tens of thousands of war captives per year in their alters. This way they destroyed their neighbors so their own empire could grow. The Europeans were better at war, that is the reason for their unmitigated success. I agree that the doctrine of discovery is an anachronism. The races in America are slowly mixing. This is one of the greatest peace makers. Even historic Europe was in constant wars of migrations in the past. Make no mistake, "European" is not one race. They are a conglomeration of 1000's of years of warfare or mixing.
That's not true what you speak of wars between Indian tribes was not fought over land food resources it was fought to see who the better warrior was
there never was a golden age, this is for sure.
@@luvbootys On occasion what you say was true. There were some tribes that rarely went to war, that is true also. When the war was a hot war they took scalps and smashed skulls. Scalp taking was far older than wars fought with white people. Are you implying that the Indians never scalped? Also, Google "the tower of skulls" in Tenochtitlan (Mexico City). They excavated the base of one of the historically described tower of skulls. Stop listening to the self-guilt propaganda. There is no justification for any war, I agree, we do it for survival and growth. Indian natives are just as guilty, but their weapons were not as effective. Also, old world diseases killed more than any weapons. This was inadvertent since even the Europeans did not understand the nature of contagious diseases.
@@CHAS1422 Well first of all we are not talking about aztecs we are talking about the untied states or the real name TURTLE ISLAND and it was european diseases that wiped out the sovereign nations not white supremacy the american military knew they couldn't win a WAR fighting against Indian tribes so they intentionally released the smallpox epidemic 2 million gone within 5 years the federal government then killed off 75 Million buffalo from canada to texas that is what happens when you allow and invasive species into your country
@@luvbootys There was no United States. It didn't exist when the greatest devastation occurred. There was no Mexico. Europeans did not understand the nature or transmission if pathogenic diseases until Louis Pasteur. You are listening to too many propaganda myths. The killing of the Buffalo is unfortunately true. But it is also true that a hunter gather culture in North America could not support more than 20 to 30 million people. The killing of the Buffalo was a deliberate strategy to settle the land so it could be subdivided by settlers. We feed a nation off of this act of deliberate cruelty.
Catholic, not Christian... there's an important distinction!
Catholics are Christians but some Catholics are really not "Christian". Protestants are the same way. Remember the KKK was created by Protestants.
Just reading about it today, wow!
WOW!
Even the "first nations" will have to face they are not the first.
So hold your speech and think it over again.
There were allways ancestors.
The first nations were definitely here before some of these other peoples lines even existed
@@javonmorros256 Then they have to admit thay were the first to shift climate change because they colonized the mammoth 🦣
there were 2 waves of migrations, one which nearly all natives are derived from, and a second one which all inuit type people are derived from.
@@yeetman4953 And what timeframe are we talking of, especially for these "first 2 waves"?
@@pitfisch1 10000 years maybe, but they were the first, no question.
What kills me is none of these people can speak of their pain in English better than the voice of Americans the blacks. It’s like y’all don’t understand that internal dialogue is usually in the native tongue you speak. Immigrants don’t have a English dialogue in their minds unless it’s a parasocial relationship with someone they love or want to be. Which is creepy.
Christian/Catholic cult
There’s no natives from the Caribbean anymore. They wiped out the Arawaks, Tainos, Caribes and others. And all in the name of Jesus. Amen to that.
THIS DAY IS THE WIPE THEM OUT DAY REMEMBER THERE SAYING TAKE WHAT YOU CAN GIVE NOTHING BACK.
Wow
where is my apology:
n 1649, Brébeuf and another missionary were captured when an Iroquois raid took over a Huron village (referred to in French as St. Louis).
Together with Huron captives, the missionaries were ritually tortured and killed on 16 March 1649.
Brébeuf was beatified in 1925 and among eight Jesuit missionaries canonized as saints in the Catholic Church in 1930
You got what you deserved. If all natives had reacted this way it would be a different world
oh so few propagandaists were just murdered but for some reason justifies genocide on the scale of two continents?
Genocide. You leftist continuously misuse the word. Just to fit your narrative. If there was actually there would be no one to mourn the event???
@@philippotter1610 so your telling me that the armenian genocide never happened?
That was 1915 killing Christians???
I’m sitting here wondering if she’s my cousin 🤣
Well that was awfully short... lol
Shame in Democracy Now. This subject is a fundamental horror of our country! The churches and our government still behave badly in this regard! Could have been a far more informative interview!
Shouldn't she be working at a casino???
off yourself.
2 wahmen speaking reminds me: I want a SANDWICH... Go be helpfull and do that... Thanks...
trash human being.
So little knowledge of history in this program. Please, read the original documentation of what happened when Spain discover and how they got to add the "new world" to its kingdoms. Nothing said here reflects what really happen, just pre-conceptions
source?
Meh I could take it or leave it
Lmao funny
Wow