Podcast appearances and mentions of christian discovery

Season 4, ep 26: Weirding Time! with: Uli, Jams, carla joy, and a Time Talks History segmentIn the season four opener, Uli, carla, and jams introduce some dreams for season 4, ruminate about other projects on the horizon, and reflect on their year off from making the Grounded Futures Show, and more! Plus, we will hear the first Time Talks History segment about the Doctrine of Discovery. Thanks for listening!

Amanda Henderson and Steven Newcomb discuss the Doctrine of Discovery and the ways in which religion has impacted the social and political frameworks amongst Native nations and the United States government.  In this conversation, Amanda Henderson and Steven Newcomb dive deeper into how the founding documents of the US contain a claim of a God-ordained right for Christians to take land from non-Christians, which continues to be used as legal precedent in today's world. Together, they advocate for a more inclusive and holistic approach to social and political change, one that acknowledges and respects Indigenous perspectives and sovereignty. Steven Newcomb invites us to step into the view "from the shore" as conquerors landed on waters of the Americas and claimed dominion, or domination over all they could see and take. For more information: https://religionnews.com/complexified Guest: 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.” For more episodes and info visit Complexified at RNS

Discover the overlooked truths of Native American legal struggles and examine the enduring impact of the Doctrine of Discovery with our esteemed guests Peter d'Errico, Steven T. Newcomb, and Joseph J. Heath. This episode promises to enhance your understanding of Native American representation in law and the historical decisions that shape their rights today. Prepare to have your perspective on federal anti-Indian law and the ramifications of the Marshall Trilogy thoroughly expanded by our panel's wealth of expertise.Our conversation navigates the powerful role language plays in framing indigenous existence against the backdrop of colonization and Western narratives. We dissect the intentional metaphors by historical figures to assert control and critique the mainstream media's failure to challenge the systemic dominations at play. This episode is a clarion call for awareness, urging a collective shift towards acknowledging the historical and spiritual significance of land to Indigenous peoples, and their ongoing efforts to heal and decolonize.Toward the close, we scrutinize the landmark McGirt decision and its effects on indigenous land rights, noting the absence of "plenary power" in Justice Gorsuch's opinion. The discussion points to the embedded racism and religious supremacy in the Lone Wolf decision of 1903, echoing Justice Clarence Thomas's skepticism of US sovereignty over Native lands. We cap off our exploration by delving into the implications of US citizenship on indigenous identity and the potential empowerment through citizenship of an Indian nation. Join us for a thought-provoking journey through the intricate intersection of law, sovereignty, and identity within Native American communities.***This panel was recorded at the The Religious Origins of White Supremacy: Johnson v. M'Intosh and the Doctrine of Christian Discovery conference.Support the showView the transcript and show notes at podcast.doctrineofdiscovery.org. Learn more about the Doctrine of Discovery on our site DoctrineofDiscovery.org.

We begin this season with a gripping conversation with Robert P Jones, founder and president of the Public Religion Research Institute. Together, we continue to highlight the layers of American history, challenging familiar narratives and revealing Indigenous, Haudensoaunee, influences. Jones takes us on a personal journey into his own evolution as a scholar, sharing how being honest about his family's connection to the settler colonialism project has informed his work and opened it to a wider audience.Our discussion delves into the interconnected histories of Indigenous and Black communities, the Doctrine of Discovery, and the 1619 project, peering into the complex relationships between colonists and Indigenous peoples. We shed light on the teachings of Native Americans to the founding fathers and Europeans about equity, fraternity, and liberty—a fresh perspective on American history—while discussing the narrative shift towards Indigenous People's Day instead of Columbus Day.But it's not just about rewriting history; it's about understanding the power of truth-telling from various perspectives. We highlight communities in Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Minnesota, who are using storytelling to bring alive their local histories and spotlight Jerome Little, the first African-American elected county commissioner in Tallahatchie County. The conversation also acknowledges the influence of writers like James Baldwin and Vine Deloria Jr. We would be remiss not to praise Robbie's New York Times bestselling book, 'Roots of White Supremacy and the Path to a Shared American Future', which captures this ethos of understanding and rewriting history through personal narratives. Get ready to challenge what you think you know.Support the showView the transcript and show notes at podcast.doctrineofdiscovery.org. Learn more about the Doctrine of Discovery on our site DoctrineofDiscovery.org.

For this week's episode, we're revisiting Tiokasin's conversation with Steven T. Newcomb. For the replay, Tiokasin recorded some additional commentary at the end and added a few new music selections. Don't just repudiate….rescind the Doctrine of Christian Discovery! Steven T. Newcomb (Shawnee, Lenape) is a scholar, educator, author, journalist, film producer, public speaker and workshop leader/facilitator. He is internationally recognized for his more than four decades of research and writing on the origins of federal Indian law and international law dating back to the early days of Christendom, most notably focused on the religious doctrine now known in history as the Doctrine of Christian Discovery. Steve and Tiokasin discuss the Vatican's formal repudiation of the Doctrine in March 2023. Steve is the author of "Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery" (Fulcrum Publishing, 2008 and Chicago Review Press) and a Producer of the 2015 documentary film, "The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code” directed and produced by Sheldon Wolfchild (Dakota). Steve is available for film screenings and talks. For more information and booking: http://originalfreenations.com/. Production Credits: Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston Karen Ramirez (Mayan), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor Kevin Richardson, Podcast Editor Music Selections: 1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song) Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters Album: Tahi (1993) Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand) (00:00:22) 2. Song Title: Mr. Soul Artist: Buffalo Springfield (written by Neil Young) Album: Buffalo Springfield Again (1967) Label: Atco Records (00:30:23) 3. Song Title: Fallen Angel Artist: Robbie Robertson Album: Robbie Robertson (1987) Label: Geffen Records (00:42:10) 4. Song Title: Blackbird Song Artist: Lee DeWyze Album: The Walking Dead: AMC Original Soundtrack, Vol. 2 Label: Republic Records (00:47:08) 5. Song Title: The Stray Artist: Ellen Benevides (Apache) with Tiokasin Ghosthorse on flute Unreleased Single: 2003 Label: Ghosthorse (00:53:54) AKANTU INTELLIGENCE Visit Akantu Intelligence, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuintelligence.org to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse

We cannot find justice in a legal system based on the Doctrine of Christian Discovery and the Plenary Powers Doctrine. Our only solutions are achieved through political means. We don't need laws passed by colonial powers to protect us because they don't. All their laws are about domination and dominion. 

Don't just repudiate....rescind the Doctrine of Christian Discovery! Tiokasin welcomes Steven T. Newcomb back to the show for the full hour. Steve (Shawnee, Lenape) is a scholar, educator, author, journalist, film producer, public speaker and workshop leader/facilitator. He is internationally recognized for his more than four decades of research and writing on the origins of federal Indian law and international law dating back to the early days of Christendom, most notably focused on the religious doctrine now known in history as the Doctrine of Christian Discovery. Steve and Tiokasin will be discussing the Vatican's formal repudiation of the Doctrine in March of this year. Steve is the author of "Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery" (Fulcrum Publishing, 2008 and Chicago Review Press) and a Producer of the 2015 documentary film, "The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code” directed and produced by Sheldon Wolfchild (Dakota). Steve is available for film screenings and talks. For more information and booking: http://originalfreenations.com/. Production Credits: Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor Kevin Richardson, Podcast Editor Music Selections: 1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song) Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters Album: Tahi (1993) Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand) (00:00:22) 2. Song Title: Mr. Soul Artist: Buffalo Springfield Album: Buffalo Springfield Again (1967) Label: Atco Records (00:31:19) 2. Song Title: Fallen Angel Artist: Robbie Robertson Album: Robbie Robertson (1987) Label: Geffen Records (00:43:08) 3. Song Title: In the Blood Artist: Robbie Robertson Album: Contact From The Underworld Of Redboy (1998) Label: Capitol/EMI (00:48:37) 4. Song Title: Warrior Artist: Xavier Rudd Album: Nanna (2015) Label: Nettwerk (00:53:00) AKANTU INSTITUTE Visit Akantu Institute, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuinstitute.org/ to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse. 

”United Nation Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues 22nd Session: 17-28 April 2023 Highlights on Indigenous Peoples, human health, planetary and territorial health and climate change: a rights-based approach” Indigenous peoples are approximately 5% of the world's population, manage at least 25% of the world's land surfaces, 40% of the world's protected areas, and steward about 80% of the world's biodiversity. Each year Indigenous peoples from scores of different nations and cultures across Mother Earth convene at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) in the settler colonial city, state, and nation-state New York City, New York, United States. Here, Indigenous peoples express their grievances at the most well-known international political body (i.e., the United Nations) even though after 100 years of existence between the League of Nations and the United Nations, Indigenous peoples' rights continue to be ignored, violated, and threatened. The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) is a high- level advisory body to the Economic and Social Council. The Forum was established on 28 July 2000 by resolution 2000/22, with the mandate to deal with indigenous issues related to economic and social development, culture, the environment, education, health and human rights. On today's program we hear testimonies from Indigenous peoples throughout Turtle Island regarding a wide range of struggles and issues. The Indigenous testimonies are from the April 18th and April 19th, 2023, sessions only. Revealing, powerful, and shameful for the nation-states across Mother Earth knowingly, willfully, and complicitly are committing acts of genocides. The voices of Indigenous peoples and organizations, along with the intervention by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples are highlighted and can be heard throughout the hour. If you like what you hear, then support KPFK (www.kpfk.org) and pick the up the book, Pagans in the Promise Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery for $100:00 and/or the DVD: The Doctrine of Discovery, Unmasking The Domination Code (2014) dir. Sheldon Wolfchild, for $100.00. Guests: • Terry Rambler, Chairman of the San Carlos Apache – Protecting Chi'chil Biłdagoteel (Oak Flat). • Sami Youth Representative, Suoma Sámi Nuorat (Finland, Sweden, and Norway) on the Greenwashing the Green Economy and Protecting Mother Earth. • Francisco Cali Tzay, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples - Intervention. Report on the Intervention of Protecting Mother Earth. English Translation. • Representative of the Global Indigenous Youth Caucus on Protecting Mother Earth, Women, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Survivance, more. • Representative of Society of Threatened Peoples on the Mongolian Genocide committed by the Chinese Government. • Nathan Phillips (Omaha Nation) on Language, Freedom for Leonard Peltier, Incarceration and Human Rights Violations, Survivance, and Survivance. • Delegation, Crimean Tartar, from the Crimean Tartar Resource Center on the Crimean Genocide committed by Russia. • Ryukyuan delegation on the United States militarization of the surrounding southern Japanese prefectures constructing military bases, poisoning lands, illegally removing Indigenous ancestors, and more. • Rodrigo Eduardo Paillalef (Puma Mapuche Nation) on Protecting Cultures, Intellectual Property Rights, and the 100-year legacy of the League of Nations and the United Nations denying Indigenous peoples and nations their rights. • Addie Parker, Shoshone-Paiute Shoshone of the Duck Valley Nation (NV), the “Green Gold Rush” and Lithium companies' expansion, the extractive industries, and Protecting Traditional Homelands. American Indian Airwaves is an all-volunteer collective and Native American public affairs program that broadcast weekly on KPFK FM 90.7 Los Angeles, CA, Thursdays, from 7:00pm to 8:00pm.

On today's program we report on the disappearance of Indigenous peoples in Mexico, the impunity of perpetrators committing crimes against Indigenous, how some self-defense groups are criminalized, and the response by the National Indigenous Congress (CNI). In Mexico, and since the January, several Indigenous defenders of land, territory, and the environment are disappearing while the state and local authorities have demonstrated interest in conducting real investigations, including that of well-known, Santos de la Cruz Carrillo, Wixárika land defender an attorney. In addition, and simultaneously, the perpetrators of crimes against Indigenous are peoples are acting with impunity while Indigenous peoples are falsely being charged of criminal activities. In response, some self-defense groups such as In Pantelhó, in the highlands of Chiapas, a new armed group has emerged to confront Los Machetes, who began as an Indigenous self-defense group but have degenerated into a criminal band. When the government fails to provide security or actively collaborates with violent criminal organizations, it sometimes leads Indigenous communities to form their own armed groups out of desperation, but this rarely ends well. Lastly, we get an update on the National Indigenous Congress (CNI) held a national assembly in Tehuacan, Puebla on 4-5 March 2023 and their responses to resisting several megaprojects adversely impacting Indigenous peoples and the increased violence directed against Indigenous defenders of land and territory. Thereafter, some preliminary analysis of the Vatican's 3/30/2023 statement repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery. Support KPFK (www.kpfk.org) and pick the up the book, Pagans in the Promise Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery for $100:00 and/or the DVD: The Doctrine of Discovery, Unmasking The Domination Code (2014) dir. Sheldon Wolfchild, for $100.00. Guest: Richard Stahler-Sholk, a retired Professor of Political Science at Eastern Michigan University, and community activist involved with the School of Chiapas which is an organization of grassroots activists and communities working to support the autonomous, indigenous Zapatista communities of Chiapas, Mexico. Schools for Chiapas was created the mid-1990's by individuals searching for ways to make the world a better place and working to create a world where all worlds fit.

The Vatican's recent repudiation of the Doctrine of Discovery has been described as a "major step" by some Indigenous leaders, but for others, the Holy See has a long way to go before it can heal the centuries of pain caused by the doctrine's colonization and control. Today on Native America Calling, we speak with Steve Newcomb (Shawnee and Lenape), author of Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery and cofounder and director of the Indigenous Law Institute, and Bruce McIvor (Métis), lawyer and partner at First Peoples Law.

The Vatican's recent repudiation of the Doctrine of Discovery has been described as a "major step" by some Indigenous leaders, but for others, the Holy See has a long way to go before it can heal the centuries of pain caused by the doctrine's colonization and control. Today on Native America Calling, we speak with Steve Newcomb (Shawnee and Lenape), author of Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery and cofounder and director of the Indigenous Law Institute, and Bruce McIvor (Métis), lawyer and partner at First Peoples Law.

This was an eye-opening conversation with Shawnee-Lenape Scholar and Author Steven T. Newcomb whose work examines Christendom's legacy of domination and dehumanization that has resulted in the near destruction of thousands of years of spiritual and ecological wisdom developed by indigenous peoples and nations.   We discussed how much of the history and culture of original nations and peoples was systematically smothered and ultimately lost; how cutting a people off from their traditional teachings is a form of domination and dehumanization; how Old Testament religious concepts form a significant part of the backdrop of federal Indian law and policy; cognitive theory and what it has to do with the history of the United States and federal Indian law; how the American Enterprise (i.e. Empire) is predicated on the assumption of the right of domination at its root; the significance of the Johnson & Graham's Lessee vs. M'Intosh SCOTUS case of 1823 - "the cornerstone of property law in the U.S."; how the claim of the right of domination has become the organizing principle of the planet and much more.   Steven Newcomb 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, the author of Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery, and the co-producer of the documentary “The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code.” Mr. Newcomb has worked on Indigenous Peoples issues at the United Nations for twenty years. His work has been published by Wiley-Blackwell of Oxford, NYU School of Law, Fulcrum Publishing, UCLA School of Law, and the Griffith School of Law in Australia. In May 2016, Mr. Newcomb met Pope Francis at St. Peter's Square and Archbishop Tomasi at the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace regarding the papal bulls of the fifteenth century.   Talkin' Politics & Religion Without Killin' Each Other is part of The Democracy Group, a network of podcasts that examines what's broken in our democracy and how we can work together to fix it.    www.amazon.com/Pagans-Promised-Land-Christian-Discovery/dp/1555916422   vimeo.com/ondemand/dominationcode   originalfreenations.com   www.researchgate.net/publication/368661824_Redthought_Event_200_Years_Since_the_Origin_of_Federal_Indian_Law   www.democracygroup.org/shows/talkin-politics-religion   twitter.com/coreysnathan   post.news/@coreysnathan  

This was an eye-opening conversation with Shawnee-Lenape Scholar and Author Steven T. Newcomb whose work examines Christendom's legacy of domination and dehumanization that has resulted in the near destruction of thousands of years of spiritual and ecological wisdom developed by indigenous peoples and nations.   We discussed how much of the history and culture of original nations and peoples was systematically smothered and ultimately lost; how cutting a people off from their traditional teachings is a form of domination and dehumanization; how Old Testament religious concepts form a significant part of the backdrop of federal Indian law and policy; cognitive theory and what it has to do with the history of the United States and federal Indian law; how the American Enterprise (i.e. Empire) is predicated on the assumption of the right of domination at its root; the significance of the Johnson & Graham's Lessee vs. M'Intosh SCOTUS case of 1823 - "the cornerstone of property law in the U.S."; how the claim of the right of domination has become the organizing principle of the planet and much more.   Steven Newcomb 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, the author of Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery, and the co-producer of the documentary “The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code.” Mr. Newcomb has worked on Indigenous Peoples issues at the United Nations for twenty years. His work has been published by Wiley-Blackwell of Oxford, NYU School of Law, Fulcrum Publishing, UCLA School of Law, and the Griffith School of Law in Australia. In May 2016, Mr. Newcomb met Pope Francis at St. Peter's Square and Archbishop Tomasi at the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace regarding the papal bulls of the fifteenth century.   Talkin' Politics & Religion Without Killin' Each Other is part of The Democracy Group, a network of podcasts that examines what's broken in our democracy and how we can work together to fix it.    www.amazon.com/Pagans-Promised-Land-Christian-Discovery/dp/1555916422   vimeo.com/ondemand/dominationcode   originalfreenations.com   www.researchgate.net/publication/368661824_Redthought_Event_200_Years_Since_the_Origin_of_Federal_Indian_Law   www.democracygroup.org/shows/talkin-politics-religion   twitter.com/coreysnathan   post.news/@coreysnathan  

 Our hosts Prof. Philip P. Arnold and Sandy Bigtree (Mohawk Nation) begin by introducing our guest Tupac Enrique Acosta. He is a founding member of the community based Indigenous Peoples organization TONATIERRA in Phoenix, Arizona. In this episode we  explore the shifts and transmutation of the Doctrine of Christian Discovery as it moves throughout Turtle Island.For the transcript and show notes visit: podcast.doctrineofdiscovery.orgSupport the show

I haven't given a whole show to explaining what the Doctrine of Discovery is in quite a while. So here we go. Feel free to do your own research but allow me to explain how we were and are impacted by this racist church doctrine.

In this personal episode I share how God has taken me on a journey and how my faith has grown and the different churches and denominations I've been a part of . From Baptist to non-denominational to Calvinist to Methodist! Hope you enjoy ! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/blueskiesandgreenpastures/message

The Supreme Court continues to empower and embolden states as they promote evangelical ideology on everything from abortion to prayers at school to the Doctrine of Christian Discovery.

Please join our hosts Professor  Philip P. Arnold and Sandy Bigtree as they talk with our guest , Professor David Carrasco about the Doctrine of Christian Discovery in the Mesoamerican context. Prof. Carrasco is the _Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America, with a joint appointment with the Department of Anthropology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences_ at Harvard Divinity School and director of the Moses Mesoamerican Archive and Research Project (MMARP)]. His work highlights the history of religions and colonialism, conquest, and colonization.Transcript and show notes are available on  podcast.doctrineofdiscovery.orgSupport the show

Dwaine Perry is Chief of the Ramapough-Lunaape Nation located in Mahweh, New Jersey. Chief Perry has a long history of advocacy and has sat with elders and Indigenous leaders in the Himalayas, the Andes and throughout North America, seeking and coalescing the seeds of unity and truth remaining in the colonized mind. He champions human rights today, focusing primarily on issues concerning the Ramapough Lunaape Nation and the Indigenous community at-large.STEVEN T. NEWCOMB (Shawnee, Lenape) is a scholar, educator, author, journalist, film producer, public speaker and workshop leader/facilitator. He is internationally recognized for his more than three decades of research and writing on the origins of federal Indian law and international law dating back to the early days of Christendom, most notably focused on the religious doctrine now known in history as the Doctrine of Christian Discovery. Steve is author of Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery (Fulcrum Publishing, 2008) and a Producer of the 2015 documentary film, The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code directed and produced by Sheldon Wolfchild (Dakota). Steve's website is http://originalfreenations.com/.Production Credits:Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive ProducerLiz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), ProducerMalcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NYTiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio EditorMusic Selections:1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)Artist: Moana and the Moa HuntersAlbum: Tahi (1993)Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)(00:00:22)2. Song Title: Don't Wanna FightArtist: Alabama ShakesCD: Sound and Color (2015)Label: ATO Records(00:20:52)3. Song Title: Mad WorldArtist: Gary Jules and Michael Andrews (by Michael Gondry)Album: Trading Snakeoil for Wolftickets (2001)Label: Down Up Down Music(00:23:38)4. Song Title: Shape of BecomingArtist: JahanAlbum: N/ALabel: N/A(00:26:52)5. Song: The UnforgottenArtist: IskwéAlbum: acākosīk (2019)Label: iskwé Music, Inc.(00:58:15)AKANTU INSTITUTEVisit Akantu Institute, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuinstitute.org/ to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse.

In this episode of the podcast Steven T. Newcomb (Shawnee/Lenape) emphasizes that what undergirds the Doctrine of Discovery is a Christian theological logic of domination and dehumanization. This theological rationale creates a system of domination. In order to understand this theory of domination and dehumanization Newcomb argues it is insufficient to look only at the law and theological dimensions we must also look at the rhetorical and cognitive dimensions of this system of domination.Transcript and show notes are available on  podcast.doctrineofdiscovery.orgSupport the show

On the the Pope's apology for the Doctrine of Christian Discovery? APOLOGY NOT ACCEPTED! As for Deb Haaland? We are still waiting for that seat at the table. Please prove me wrong and do the right thing on this Seneca gaming dispute with NYS.

We need to start at the beginning but don't think for a minute that we suffer today only from the lingering effects of old racist laws. They are STILL being passed today and both the laws are racist and the enforcement and oversight of them are racist.

In this week's episode our hosts talk with Onondaga Nation General counsel Joe Heath.  They discuss how The Doctrine of Discovery is an excuse for colonialism. It is European white Christian colonialism which has inflicted white Christian supremacy all over the globe . Some key topics for the episode are: plenary power, Sullivan Clinton, Erie Canal, landback and more. For a transcript and show notes visit: https://podcast.doctrineofdiscovery.org/ Support the show (https://paypal.me/indigenousvalues)

To start of the new year, we are introducing our first mini-series entitled "Indigenous Slavery...a History Obscured." This series is written, produced, and voiced by Michael Kickingbear Johnson, an enrolled member of The Mashantucket Pequot Tribe. This is Part one in the series. This Episode Covers:1.) A explanation of the participation of Cristobal Columbus in the selling and trading of Africans & Indigenous People.2.) The role of the Doctrine of Discovery and the Catholic Church had in Indigenous slaveryRunning time: 26 minutes.Resources worth checking out:1.) "Pagans in the promise land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery" by Steven Newcomb. https://www.amazon.com/Pagans-Promised-Land-Christian-Discovery/dp/15559164222.) Documentary: "The Doctrine of Discovery, Unmasking The Domination Code"https://doctrineofdiscovery.org/the-doctrine-of-discovery-unmasking-the-domination-code/

Air Date 9/13/2019 Today we take a look at the history and the process of the building of an American empire that currently spans the globe but allows as few people of color to vote as possible. Be part of the show! Leave us a message at 202-999-3991 or email Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com  SHOW NOTES Ch. 1: Daniel Immerwahr: Empire State of Mind Part 1 - On the Media - Air Date 8-22-19 The history of US imperialism — and why the familiar US map hides the true story of our country. With Northwestern University historian Daniel Immerwahr, author of How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States. Ch. 2: Doctrine of Christian Discovery - Let's Talk Native - Air Date 3-18-19 I learned that most educators know nothing about the Doctrine of Christian Discovery. How can you teach about colonization, slavery, the American genocide, Westward expansion or imperialism without teaching the origins of it all? Ch. 3: Harvest of Empire Part 1 - Making Contact - Air Date 6-25-19 It's not just jobs and prosperity that draw immigrants to the United States. Many Latin American's were brought here, or forced to come by dangerous or deadly conditions. And the US often had a role in creating those crises. Ch. 4: Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the US Border Around the World w: Todd Miller - The Majority Report - Air Date 8-27-19 Journalist Todd Miller (@memomiller) joins Sam to discuss his new book, "Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the U.S. Border Around the World." Ch. 5: Harvest of Empire Part 2 - Making Contact - Air Date 6-25-19 It's not just jobs and prosperity that draw immigrants to the United States. Many Latin American's were brought here, or forced to come by dangerous or deadly conditions. And the US often had a role in creating those crises. Ch. 6: Daniel Immerwahr: Empire State of Mind Part 2 - On the Media - Air Date 8-22-19 The history of US imperialism — and why the familiar US map hides the true story of our country. With Northwestern University historian Daniel Immerwahr, author of How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States. Ch. 7: Blood, lies and the American empire - This is hell - Air Date 5-13-19 Black Agenda Report's Danny Haiphong traces a 300 year history of fake news in America. Danny is author of the book American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News—From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror VOICEMAILS Ch. 8: Gun responsibility vs naked evil - Dave from Olympia, WA FINAL COMMENTS Ch. 9: Final comments on this weeks topics poll MUSIC (Blue Dot Sessions): Opening Theme: Loving Acoustic Instrumental by John Douglas Orr  Closing Music: Upbeat Laid Back Indie Rock by Alex Stinnent   Produced by Jay! Tomlinson Thanks for listening! Visit us at BestOfTheLeft.com Support the show via Patreon Listen on iTunes | Stitcher | Spotify | Alexa Devices | +more Check out the BotL iOS/Android App in the App Stores! Follow at Twitter.com/BestOfTheLeft Like at Facebook.com/BestOfTheLeft Contact me directly at Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Review the show on iTunes and Stitcher!

Air Date 7/10/2020 Today we take a look at the origins and legacy of Manifest Destiny, the historical term most closely tied to our most toxic version of nostalgia: the one longing for America's golden age of genocide Be part of the show! Leave us a message at 202-999-3991 or email Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com  Transcript SHOW NOTES Ch. 1: Intro contemplating conservative thinking applied to genocide Ch. 2: Confederacy Inc. Donald Trump, Racist Police, and the Whitewashing of History Part 1 - Intercepted with Jeremy Scahill - Air Date 7-1-20 Native American historian Nick Estes explains the crimes against Indigenous people committed by the four presidents whose faces are carved into Mount Rushmore. Ch. 3: The Interest of the White Man demands their extinction - @BackStory - Air Date: 01-19-18 Ed talks with historian Benjamin Madley about the devastating impact of the Gold Rush on California's native tribes – and how both government officials and everyday citizens justified enslaving and killing native peoples. Ch. 4: Doctrine of Christian Discovery Part 1 - Let's Talk Native - Air Date 3-18-19 I learned that most educators know nothing about the Doctrine of Christian Discovery. How can you teach about colonization, slavery, the American genocide, Westward expansion or imperialism without teaching the origins of it all? Ch. 5: Confederacy Inc. Donald Trump, Racist Police, and the Whitewashing of History Part 2 - Intercepted with Jeremy Scahill - Air Date 7-1-20 Native American historian Nick Estes explains the crimes against Indigenous people committed by the four presidents whose faces are carved into Mount Rushmore. Ch. 6: Doctrine of Christian Discovery Part 2 - Let's Talk Native - Air Date 3-18-19 I learned that most educators know nothing about the Doctrine of Christian Discovery. How can you teach about colonization, slavery, the American genocide, Westward expansion or imperialism without teaching the origins of it all? Ch. 7: Paul Frymer on the building of an American empire - The Dig from @jacobinmag - Air Date 1-30-18 We are living on land from which indigenous people, over hundreds of years, have been violently removed. Almost everyone knows this — yet it's rarely mentioned in stories that Americans tell themselves about who we are as a country and how we got here. Ch. 8: Confederacy Inc. Donald Trump, Racist Police, and the Whitewashing of History Part 3 - Intercepted with Jeremy Scahill - Air Date 7-1-20 Native American historian Nick Estes explains the crimes against Indigenous people committed by the four presidents whose faces are carved into Mount Rushmore. Ch. 9: Understanding the origins of scalp hunting and "redskins" - Empire Files - Air Date 11-25-15 Abby Martin interviews Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, renowned indigenous scholar and activist, about her most recent book "An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States." Ch. 10: Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz on digging deeper to understand America's past - Popaganda from @BitchMedia - Air Date 6-16-16 We call up brilliant scholar Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz to dig into her work, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States FINAL COMMENTS Ch. 11: Final comments on the pain caused by the breaking of your shell of understanding MUSIC (Blue Dot Sessions): Opening Theme: Loving Acoustic Instrumental by John Douglas Orr  Thannoid - Bodytonic Waltz for Zacaria - Cholate Quaver - Codebreaker Lahaina - Cloud Harbor One Little Triumph - Piano Mover Cloud Line - K4 Dirtbike Lovers - Desert Orchard Astrisx - Bodytonic Voicemail Music: Low Key Lost Feeling Electro by Alex Stinnent Closing Music: Upbeat Laid Back Indie Rock by Alex Stinnent   Produced by Jay! Tomlinson Visit us at BestOfTheLeft.com Support the show via Patreon Listen on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | +more Check out the BotL iOS/Android App in the App Stores! Follow at Twitter.com/BestOfTheLeft Like at Facebook.com/BestOfTheLeft Contact me directly at Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Review the show on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher and Facebook!

Pagans in the Promised Land provides a startling challenge to U.S. federal Indian law and policy. Using history and cognitive theory, Steven Newcomb demonstrates how U.S. government officials have used religious concepts of Christendom, often unconsciously, to justify the taking of Native American lands and to deny the original independence of Indian nations. He demonstrates that the landmark case Johnson v. M'Intosh is premised in part on the Old Testament narrative of the "chosen people" having a divine right to the 'promised land,' and how continued U.S. reliance on ancient religious distinctions between "Christians" and "heathens" violates the bedrock doctrine of separation of church and state.

Robert Miller, Julie Cavanuagh-Bill, and Steven Newcomb each present on the impact of the Christian Doctrine of Discovery/Dominion. Robert J. Miller (Eastern Shawnee Nation), an Associate Professor at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon where he teaches Indian law courses and Civil Procedure, a first year class. Bob has taught and practiced Indian law since 1993. He has also been a part-time tribal judge since 1995 for many Northwest tribes and is currently the Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals for the Grand Ronde Tribe. Bob has published numerous articles and book chapters and legal materials on Indian law issues and has spoken on Indian issues at dozens of federal, state, and private conferences in more than 20 states across the country. He has also been speaking about the Lewis & Clark expedition and the Indian Nations for the past three years and has published a book on the subject, Native America, Discovered and Conquered: Thomas Jefferson, Lewis & Clark, and Manifest Destiny. Bob became involved with this project in 2003 when he was appointed by his tribe to be its representative on the Circle of Tribal Advisors to the National Council of the Lewis & Clark Bicentennial. Julie Cavanaugh-Bill, Attorney and Western Shoshone Defense Project member and activist, has worked tirelessly to defend the traditional territories of the Western Shoshone peoples and nation as well as The Treaty of Newe Segobia (Ruby Valley) of 1863. Steven Newcomb (Shawnee, Lenape) is a legal scholar and one of the world's foremost authorities on the doctrine of Christian discovery. In 2008 Fulcrum published his book Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery. In 1992, he and Birgil Kills Straight (Oglala Lakota Nation) co-founded the Indigenous Law Institute. Newcomb has been studying and writing about U.S. federal Indian law and policy since the early 1980s. In 2015, Newcomb and Sheldon Wolfchild (Dakota) completed a documentary movie based on Pagans in the Promised Land. It's titled “The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code” (2015).

In the first segment, Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes Corrina Gould and Christopher “Toby” McLeod. Corrina Gould is Chochenyo and Karkin Ohlone, born and raised in Oakland, California. She is the spokesperson for the Confederated Villages of Lisjan and co-founder of the Indigenous women-led Sogorea Te’ Land Trust. Corrina has worked tirelessly to protect the 425 shellmounds that ring San Francisco Bay, and is currently focused on protecting the West Berkeley Shellmound and Village Site, the first and oldest Ohlone settlement on San Francisco Bay—a designated Berkeley City Landmark since 2000, and one of the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Sites in America in 2020. More information at https://shellmound.org/ and sogoreate-landtrust.com/Christopher (Toby) McLeod has been Project Director of the Sacred Land Film Project since 1984. In 2013, he completed the four-part series Standing on Sacred Ground, which aired on PBS. Toby produced and directed In the Light of Reverence (2001) and three other award-winning documentaries broadcast on national television: The Four Corners: A National Sacrifice Area? (1983) and NOVA: Poison in the Rockies (1990). Toby has a master’s degree in journalism from U.C. Berkeley and a B.A. in History from Yale and has received a Student Academy Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Toby has worked with Indigenous communities as a filmmaker, journalist and photographer for 44 years. Standing on Sacred Ground is available from Bullfrog Films, StandingOnSacredGround.org and sacredland.org.In the second segment, Tiokasin welcomes back Steven T. Newcomb (Shawnee, Lenape). Steve is a scholar, educator, author, journalist, film producer, public speaker and workshop leader/facilitator. He is internationally recognized for his more than three decades of research and writing on the origins of federal Indian law and international law dating back to the early days of Christendom, most notably focused on the religious doctrine now known in history as the Doctrine of Christian Discovery. Steve is author of "Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery" (Fulcrum Publishing, 2008) and a Producer of the 2015 documentary film, "The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code” directed and produced by Sheldon Wolfchild (Dakota). Steve’s website is http://originalfreenations.com/. For additional information about Steve and his other projects, visit redthought.org and shawnanbluestar.comProduction Credits:Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive ProducerLiz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), ProducerTiokasin Ghosthorse, Studio Engineer and Audio Editor, WIOX 91.3 FM, Roxbury, NYMusic Selections:1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)Artist: Moana and the Moa HuntersCD: Tahi (1993)Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)(00:00:44)2. Song Title: Make You CrazyArtist: Brett Dennan feat. Femi KutiCD: Hope for the Hopeless (2008)Label: Dualtone Records(00:26:08)3. Song Title: Begin AgainArtist: Nick MulveyEP: Begin AgainLabel: Eel Pie Records(00:29:42)4. Song Title: Nicto KickoArtist: Laura NiquayCD: Waska Matisiwin (upcoming release date: April 21, 2021)Label: Musique Nomade(00:53:38)

Thursday, 7/23/2020, on American Indian Airwaves, 7pm to 8pm (PCT) Listen live at: http://www.kpfk.org or podcast on Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, or iHeart Radio after 8pm (PCT). “U.S. Fragility in the Doctrine of Discovery and Domination: Fallen Statues, the McGirt v. Oklahoma Case, Solidarity Movements, Race, and More” Parts 1 and 2: What are the linkages between the Doctrine of Discovery and Domination to the recent bevy of fallen and removed statues of St. Junipero Serra, founder of the Alta Spanish Mission System that wreaked havoc and genocide onto California Indigenous Peoples? How does the recent McGirt v. Oklahoma (2020) United States Supreme Court case that affirms the Muscogee Creeks Treaty rights relate to the Doctrine of Discovery and Domination? How does the recent Indigenous-Black Lives Matter (BLM) solidarity movement relate to conversations about the interlinking topics of race, the Doctrine of Discovery and Domination, and decolonization? Lastly, what does the significances of the announcement Washington D.C. R*skins name change and the contestations and clarifications of the settler colonial framing of the offensive mascot issues as part of the “culture wars”? Tune in for the entire hour to hear Steve Newcomb touch on all these issues, plus more. Guest: Steven Newcomb (Shawnee, Lenape Nations) is a legal scholar and one of the world's foremost authorities on the doctrine of Christian discovery. Newcomb is the author of Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery (2008), co-founded with Birgil Kills Straight (Oglala Lakota Nation) the Indigenous Law Institute (1992), studies and writes about the U.S. federal Indian law and policy since the early 1980s, and along with Sheldon Wolfchild (Dakota) completed a documentary movie based on Pagans in the Promised Land titled “The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code” (2015). American Indian Airwaves regularly broadcast Thursdays from 7pm to 8pm (PCT) on KPFK FM 90.7 in Los Angeles, CA; FM 98.7 in Santa Barbara, CA; FM 99.5 in China Lake, CA; FM 93.7 in North San Diego, CA; FM 99.1 KLBP in Long Beach, CA (Thursdays 5pm-6pm); and WCRS FM 98.3/102.1 in Columbus, OH. Archived American Indian Airwaves programs can be heard here on the KPFK website for 60-days only and podcast on Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, or iHeart Radio after 8pm (PCT).

Air Date 7/10/2020 Today we take a look at the origins and legacy of Manifest Destiny, the historical term most closely tied to our most toxic version of nostalgia: the one longing for America's golden age of genocide Transcript Be part of the show! Leave us a message at 202-999-3991 MEMBERSHIP ON PATREON (Get AD FREE Shows & Bonus Content) Support us on PodHero Support us on Flattr EPISODE SPONSORS: Clean Choice Energy IF YOU’RE GOING TO SHOP AMAZON: Amazon USA | Amazon CA | Amazon UK SHOW NOTES Ch. 1: Intro contemplating conservative thinking applied to genocide Ch. 2: Confederacy Inc. Donald Trump, Racist Police, and the Whitewashing of History Part 1 - Intercepted with Jeremy Scahill - Air Date 7-1-20 Native American historian Nick Estes explains the crimes against Indigenous people committed by the four presidents whose faces are carved into Mount Rushmore. Ch. 3: The Interest of the White Man demands their extinction - @BackStory - Air Date: 01-19-18 Ed talks with historian Benjamin Madley about the devastating impact of the Gold Rush on California’s native tribes – and how both government officials and everyday citizens justified enslaving and killing native peoples. Ch. 4: Doctrine of Christian Discovery Part 1 - Let’s Talk Native - Air Date 3-18-19 I learned that most educators know nothing about the Doctrine of Christian Discovery. How can you teach about colonization, slavery, the American genocide, Westward expansion or imperialism without teaching the origins of it all? Ch. 5: Confederacy Inc. Donald Trump, Racist Police, and the Whitewashing of History Part 2 - Intercepted with Jeremy Scahill - Air Date 7-1-20 Native American historian Nick Estes explains the crimes against Indigenous people committed by the four presidents whose faces are carved into Mount Rushmore. Ch. 6: Doctrine of Christian Discovery Part 2 - Let’s Talk Native - Air Date 3-18-19 I learned that most educators know nothing about the Doctrine of Christian Discovery. How can you teach about colonization, slavery, the American genocide, Westward expansion or imperialism without teaching the origins of it all? Ch. 7: Paul Frymer on the building of an American empire - The Dig from @jacobinmag - Air Date 1-30-18 We are living on land from which indigenous people, over hundreds of years, have been violently removed. Almost everyone knows this — yet it’s rarely mentioned in stories that Americans tell themselves about who we are as a country and how we got here. Ch. 8: Confederacy Inc. Donald Trump, Racist Police, and the Whitewashing of History Part 3 - Intercepted with Jeremy Scahill - Air Date 7-1-20 Native American historian Nick Estes explains the crimes against Indigenous people committed by the four presidents whose faces are carved into Mount Rushmore. Ch. 9: Understanding the origins of scalp hunting and "redskins" - Empire Files - Air Date 11-25-15 Abby Martin interviews Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, renowned indigenous scholar and activist, about her most recent book "An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States." Ch. 10: Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz on digging deeper to understand America's past - Popaganda from @BitchMedia - Air Date 6-16-16 We call up brilliant scholar Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz to dig into her work, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States FINAL COMMENTS Ch. 11: Final comments on the pain caused by the breaking of your shell of understanding MUSIC (Blue Dot Sessions): Opening Theme: Loving Acoustic Instrumental by John Douglas Orr  Thannoid - Bodytonic Waltz for Zacaria - Cholate Quaver - Codebreaker Lahaina - Cloud Harbor One Little Triumph - Piano Mover Cloud Line - K4 Dirtbike Lovers - Desert Orchard Astrisx - Bodytonic Voicemail Music: Low Key Lost Feeling Electro by Alex Stinnent Closing Music: Upbeat Laid Back Indie Rock by Alex Stinnent   Produced by Jay! Tomlinson Visit us at BestOfTheLeft.com Support the show via Patreon Listen on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | +more Check out the BotL iOS/Android App in the App Stores! Follow at Twitter.com/BestOfTheLeft Like at Facebook.com/BestOfTheLeft Contact me directly at Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Review the show on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher and Facebook!

 I am Stan Berteloot and this is Back in America, a podcast where I explore American's identity, culture, and values.My guest today is a candidate running as an independent for president of the United States. A man who's not white, not black but a dual citizen of The United States and The Navajo Nation.For three years he lived with his family in a one-room hogan with no running water or electricity out in a Navajo reservation. He dreams of a nation where 'we the people' truly means 'all the people'.Yet as we prepare to celebrate Memorial day he reminds us of the “ethnic cleansing and genocide” the United States carried against the indigenous peoples of this land.Welcome to Back in America Mark Charles. Transcript Stanislas Berteloot  0:00  Welcome. This is part two of an interview with Mark Charles a Native American and an independent candidate to the presidential elections of 2020. I discovered the the boarding school while in Phoenix, a Native American Museum, people were mistreated and dehumanized. What I also understood is that some Native Americans use that experience to politicize themselves in order to fight back the oppretion Is that something you know, agree with?  Mark Charles  0:44  Yes. My grandfather was one was a person like that. I mean, he he was a boarding school survivor. And he learned English well, he attended college. He didn't graduate due to the Great Depression and he actually went to he testified in front of Congress. advocating for more funding for Indian education. So yeah, there's there's a history of people, native peoples African people, women who have been trying to work within the system to get the system to treat these communities better. And on one hand, you could say, that's what I'm doing with my campaign for president. But I'm, I'm taking it to a level that our nation has never dealt with before. Certainly, I am advocating that we deal with the foundations because that's where the dehumanization, and the white supremacy, the racism and the sexism and I want to come back to that and Stanislas Berteloot  1:43  I also want to tell me a bit more about the Doctrine of Discovery. But before we do that, let me come back to something that you mentioned and that you're also mentioning in your in your video, the fact that you know, your experience is somewhat similar to, or at least you want to unify the black American with the Native Americans, yet my understanding that the relationship between the Native Americans and the blacks have not always been very easy or peaceful, some Native American, even enslaved blacks, you know, what's your what's your take on that? Mark Charles  2:29  I will agree that there there is some bad history in the past between both African Americans and Native Americans. And again, any other group of people you're going to see this and I would agree that that does exist there. My experience growing up was there was very little if any interaction between black and white because the three predominant demographics in the southwest are watching Latino or Latina dynamics, and natives, there's very few, if any African Americans in the southwest, there are some. But but it's a much smaller group. And so a lot of my experience growing up was there was just a lot of ignorance about even the history. And this is one of the challenges that we face. So because of the way race was constructed in America, again, where the, the narrative of our country was, these lands were discovered, so there were no people here. And then African people were captured and brought over here and enslaved. And the way the black race was constructed, was in part through what's called the one drop rule. So the one drop rule states that if you have a single drop of African blood, you're black. Now, the reason we have this rules Because blacks were the enslaved demographic, they were used to build the country. And so this nation wanted as many of them as possible. So the one drop rule allowed for a white slave owner to rape his female enslaved women and produce more people that they could enslave. Meanwhile, the native community, we had what's known as the blood quantum rule that was applied to us. The blood quantum rule stated that if there was intermarriage, or if you know, you could be full and then half and then a quarter of an eighth and a 16th. And soon your nativeness could be bred out of you. Why do we have this rule for natives? Well, because the myth of the nation was we discovered these lands there were no people here. And the US government had treaty obligations to native people. So they want as few of us as possible. And so the American Indian race was constructed so it could be bred out of existence and eventually assimilated into the broader nation. And so because of these things. And because most of the places where because of the way enslavement works, the way the black population increased was where there were a lot of white people. And because natives were being ethnically cleansed and removed from these lands, and that best put on reservations, if not just  silently killed wherever white people came, natives decreased. And so the Southwest was one place where there was some population of native peoples and there was some intermixing between the races. And so because of this there, there was very little interaction. Not none but very little interaction between the white or the black and the native races Stanislas Berteloot  5:46  today, what are your own personal interactions with the African American communities? And how does it works out? Mark Charles  5:54  I frequently get asked questions by people about how can they reach out to native peoples. How can they begin to learn the system And, and even build relationships within native communities. And oftentimes, they're not looking really to build relationships, they're looking for ways to kind of give charity or to learn some things and study a few new things. And I work very hard to direct people in a different path. And so I work very hard to tell people this is all about building relationship. And so I've tried to take the very same approach to my understanding about the African American community. Okay, because I grew up in an area where there were so few African Americans, I've learned that I have to be very intentional, to build relationships within that community. And so for most of my adult life, where we've moved around the country, even the churches we've attended, or sometimes the neighborhoods we lived in, we have been very intentional to put ourselves in a space where we are interacting with the African American community, and seeing some of the challenges and some of the struggles and then in the context of That beginning to be building relationships within that community, you know, the challenges is that as a nation, we see all these things in silos. And so the nation because of the way the population has worked out, it tends to deal primarily with white versus black and to focus on the issue the injustice of slavery. But the challenge is, it's not that siloed we have women who are dealing with issues of sexism and assault, we have Native Americans who are dealing with issues of genocide and ethnic cleansing and cultural genocide and boarding schools and removal have African Americans who are dealing with histories of enslavement and Jim Crow, and segregation and all communities of color dealing with issues of mass incarceration. And these are very much not siloed things and yet, often were put into silos. And so by taking this approach, of investing deeply in relationships within these diverse communities, This is what helped lead me even into this understanding of one of the primary visions of my platform, which is that our nation needs a national dialogue on race, gender, and class, a conversation that steps out of the silos and actually begins to look at the root of what's causing these challenges in all of our communities.  Stanislas Berteloot  10:31  How is it being welcomed by the community, the black community? Mark Charles  10:34  Well, again, so a lot of this is helping people understand the value of having this dialogue rooted in a much deeper history, not just in the history of one demographic, or one group of people, or even one narrative. And there there's a there's a native leader from Canada. His name is George Rasmus and when he was writing In regards to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that happened in Canada, out of their residential schools, he used this quote where he said, where common memory is lacking where people do not share on the same path, there can be no real history, or no real community. If you want to build community says you have to start by creating common memory. Now, this is a very good idea, not just for white people, but for all Americans to understand that there are so many stories of the people who live here, people who call themselves citizens, whether it's this the stories of enslavement, the stories of, of, you know, of the Holocaust, the stories of internment camps, the stories of boarding schools, and removal and massacres. There's all these different stories and we don't by and large as a nation have a common memory. People will know the story within their silos, but they won't know the stories of the broader nation that the more the narrative of the of the broader community. And so what I'm really trying to do is to say, hey, there's a value in learning all of these stories and giving, giving voice to all of these different demographics so that we as a nation can actually have a healthier community. And I get that, but then what that vision is, is heard Well, it's received well, the people who hear it think it's beautiful and really like it. Stanislas Berteloot  12:32  Yeah. And what I'm trying to get at is, you know, what concrete action Did you see from other communities, including the black communities in joining the common understanding and this common memory. You know, my, my experience, looking at my experience of, you know, white guy in this country, is that as you said, this is very siloed and the black say look our experience is so different from anything else that we need to fight for ourselves, nobody else but us can carry on this fight. You come with a very different view, saying let's bring together our common experience in order to create a memory that will never else fight to be even stronger. But did you see that actually being picked up by other communities? Mark Charles  13:30  What I find among the demographics is when when we are able to properly educate everybody with some of the true history of all the communities, and when you read the Constitution, and there's really three demin four demographics that the constitution defines very clearly. You know, it starts with the words in the preamble with people. That sounds inclusive. It sounds like oh, everybody is a part of this. But Article One, Section two, which is this Section of the Constitution just a few lines below the preamble that defines who actually is included and we the people. And first of all, it never mentioned women. And this is important because if you read the entire constitution preamble to the 27th amendment, you will find that there are 51 gender specific male pronouns 51 he him in his who can run for office who can hold office even who's protected by the document, there's not a single female pronoun and the entire constitution. So we have to know Article One, section two never mentioned women. Second is specifically excludes natives. And third accounts, Africans is three fifths of a person. So, in 1787, that leaves white men and it was white land owning men who could vote. So there's an expectation that everybody is included. And one of the most clear ways to identify this is this crisis that's going on right now in Indian Country known as missing and murdered indigenous Women and Girls, where there are literally hundreds if not thousands of Indigenous women who've been reported missing or reported more murdered by their families, to law enforcement, local, state, and even federal. And not only are their cases not being closed, but often they're not even being opened. Their families are literally left to go and hunt for them themselves. When I was at the Franklin Mayer Native American presidential forum, they were asking the candidates about this, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, who in Costco, Kamala Harris, and as they learned about this crisis, they were all responding and saying, We need a new law or new policy to protect this vulnerable demographic. However, as a native man who's read our constitution and knows our history, my response was and is, when your declaration calls Decker's independence calls native savages and your constitution never mentioned to women. You shouldn't be prize when your Indigenous women go missing and get murdered, and society and the government doesn't care, a new law isn't going to fix this problem because the law is ultimately based on our foundations. And it's our foundations that state this group is not included. If we want to fix this problem, we have to fix our foundations. Stanislas Berteloot  16:24  Yeah, and how do you explain it? I mean, besides, you know, what you just said about the Constitution, you know, why is this demographic missing? And my question is, is it because they are not reported properly at the first place? I mean, are they tracked Native American woman are they do they have papers I mean, are there listings? Mark Charles  16:46  that's the problem. There's no central listing there's nothing they even though they get reported, nothing happens or very little happens on the on the the system the the institutional side of the law enforcement And suddenly  Stanislas Berteloot  17:01  that's been going on for years, right? I mean, Mark Charles  17:03  yes. Everybody knows about that. And this is this is the problem. And this is why it's a crisis. And this is also why. And so one of the ways you you, I look at it. Um, there's an author named  William Jennings, who's talked about this idea of proximity to whiteness. When you understand the Doctrine of Discovery, you read our foundations and you realize that technically, the foundations were written for white, landowning, technically Christian men. That is like the sweet spot of this country. If you're a white land owning Christian male, the United States of America is your oyster. Y ou have every opportunity, every possibility, many, many many chances to come and find your fortunes.  Now, depending on what other demographics You are so myself I'm a male with dark skin because I'm Navajo. And I am a Christian, but I don't own any land. So I fit two of the four categories, right? I'm, I'm a male. I'm a native male, who's a Christian. So I get two and I missed two. So there's a few ways that I can have this proximity to whiteness to be included within the system. Lower down at the bottom, you have women of color, African American women, other women of color, they're not white, they're not male. They may be Christian, and if they work very, very, very hard, they might be able to become a landowner. So they have one, maybe one and a half of the four categories. At the very bottom, very bottom, a group that has almost no proximity and even very little chancer proximity are indigenous women.  A, if they're indigenous, and they're living on their reservation, there's a good chance they follow their traditional religion. So they're not Christian. Because they're on a reservation, which is federal lands held in trust for the tribes, they can't own land. They're not white, and they're not male. They fit none of the categories and have very little chance of gaining access to any of those categories. So they are at the very, very, very bottom. And so one of the things that I'm trying so hard to do is until we include the people at the very bottom, we're not going to be able to include everybody. So if I were just fighting for the rights of Navajo men, then I would still believing women of color, who have no idea opportunity to have those access points. And this is why I go back frequently to to missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. Because again, this is the demographic that has almost zero proximity to whiteness. And therefore it's it we have to take note that this is the group of people that even when they get reported as missing or murdered, society doesn't respond. Stanislas Berteloot  20:29  I want to ask you about the current pandemic. For the past few decades, Native American nations have been increasingly taken on a greater responsibility for providing a wide range of governmental services. Yet, as Native American nation cannot raise tax, as you know, the rest of the government there were dependent on casinos or enterprises that because of the pandemic have been closed and that make the situation harder for the American Native American people now to deal with, you know, what's, what's your take on on this situation? Mark Charles  21:10  I would argue that the the root of the problem comes down to sovereignty or control over their own lands and land titles. This is this is at the root of what is causing so much the challenge for our native nations. If you follow the news  Stanislas Berteloot  21:30  and we are dealing with or you are talking about the challenge when it comes to the coronavirus  Mark Charles  21:35  Well, I'm just talking about in general the chat Yes, and this fits in very close to the Coronavirus and I can understand why. So, um how can I do this without going on for 20 minutes Um, so, a few a few in March actually mean go back in the Obama administration established reservation lands for the mashpee Wampanoag in Massachusetts. Joe Biden this was part of the Biden Obama administration. In his second term, he established reservation lands for the mashpee Wampanoag. In March of this year, march of 2020. The Trump administration disestablished those reservations. So essentially, if you think of it, that if you think of the US government as the landlord, and the native nations as the tenants, and the reservation as the apartment, what happened is, cousin Obama gave an apartment to the native nation. And then during a global pandemic, President Trump kicked them out of the apartment. So a it was unjust it was it was heartless but be the timing of it was horrible. This was like kicking someone out of their apartment during a hurricane. It just it's if there was not only is it heartless to evict evict people, but to evict them in the midst of a global pandemic is like, it's just it's completely heartless. And so there was a lot of outcry amongst the general population, people who knew about it. This was a cruel act by the Trump administration. And even President, Vice President Biden responded to this. And he wrote a letter responding to the the injustice of that, and I want to just read one of the quotes from his letter he wrote, he pointed out how it was cruel of the Trump administration to disestablish this reservation, during a pandemic, he reminded the country that the Obama administration and with him helped establish this result servation and then he went on and he said one of the most important roles the federal government plays in rebuilding the nation to nation relationship is taking land into trust on behalf of tribes. It is critical for tribal sovereignty and self determination. Now, that statement is dripping with white supremacy and dehumanization. Let's just for for fun. Let's insert France instead of native tribes. Okay. One of the most important roles the federal government plays in rebuilding the nation to nation relationship is taking land into trust on behalf of France. It is critical for French sovereignty and self determination. If President Trump or President Obama or anyone said that to another foreign leader, those would be words of war. Stanislas Berteloot  24:51  Yeah, that would be an outcry Mark Charles  24:53  you wouldn't you would. This is A this is not a nation to nation relationship. And this has nothing to do with sovreignty and self determination. Right. And so the fascinating thing about this is in joe biden's mind, Trump is bad because he kicked in the wife mashpee Wampanoag out, he and pressident Obama were good because they let them in. But neither one of them are understanding the injustice of the indigenous peoples of Turtle Island (Turtle Island is a name for North America, used by many Native Americans and First Nations people and by Indigenous rights activists), being considered mere tenants in the lands that were stolen, and ethnically cleanse by the government, of their people. And so this is, and this is where the Doctrine of Discovery lies. And so, because there is no sense of native rights to land, we are merely tenants we're merely occupants, and that is rooted in the Doctrine of Discovery. A Supreme Court case back in 1823 JOHN Marshall is the first case referencing the Doctrine of Discovery. Its reference as recently as 2005. I did a TEDx talk on this called we the people the three most misunderstood words in US history, laying out the court case in 2005, the United Indian nation versus the city of Charlotte in New York, I entered, I lay out how this is one of the most white supremacist Supreme Court opinions written in my lifetime that again, denies the United Indian nation rights to their land based on the Doctrine of Discovery. And that opinion was written by Ruth Bader Ginsburg.   Yeah, again. So so in the midst of this pandemic, the Navajo Nation now has the highest rate of infection of any if it were a state, we would have the highest rate of were higher than new New York and New Jersey, on the Navajo Nation. Health care is rural there. There's not enough hospitals. We have almost 200 thousand people on the Navajo Nation because of history and cultural differences and understandings. Social distancing is a challenge to get our people to social distance. Because of the rising numbers on the Navajo Nation, the county of McKinley, McKinley County, New Mexico, became the highest rate of infection in New Mexico, which is where this the city of Gallup lives, which is where I grew up, right, the end of last month, end of April, the outgoing mayor of Gallup was seeing this rising infection rate he was seeing what was happening to the two hospitals they have in Gallup and he was looking at what was taking place on their closest neighbor which is the Navajo Nation. Now the Navajo Nation is a food desert 200,000 people about 26,000 square miles 13 full service grocery stores.  The border towns are absolutely crucial because There's not enough inventory on the Navajo Nation to feed our people. So you have to go to the border towns on the weekends to buy groceries. Many of our people are on fixed incomes and they get a check from the government at the end of the month. And so the end of the month you're stretching your budget and your food. And then the first of the month when you get your check or your money, you have to go to the border town to buy groceries. The city of Gallup New Mexico cannot exist economically. Without the influx of money from the Navajo Nation. It cannot exist without without this business. On the last second the last day of the month, the outgoing mayor in April, sent a letter to the governor of New Mexico, asking her to invoke the riot control act so they could shut the roads into gallop. So they shut the roads into Gallup put police officers and National Guards they're literally at to keep natives from coming into town and buying groceries at gunpoint. Stanislas BertelootWhoa. So what happened? Mark CharlesThey shut it down for almost two weeks. How did the people eat? Stanislas Berteloot  29:23  Where did they find the food? Mark Charles  29:24  Well, they would have to eat understand in a long line at the one of the few grocery stores on the reservation or traveled to another border town to my to two hours in the other direction. Again, I fully admit this was a crisis 250 years in the making. There was no good solution to this problem. But of all the bad solutions they could have possibly found. invoking the riot control act on people who are not Riot who are not rioting, and who are foundations already dehumanized, and to lock them out of this town where they literally just trying to buy groceries That's probably the worst of the bad solutions they have in front of them. And so that's happening there. Meanwhile, you have in South Dakota, there are several roads that pass right through many of the reservations in South Dakota and the tribes in South Dakota fearing knowing how vulnerable their population is because of access to hospitals and access to healthy food and this the challenges they face knowing how vulnerable their populations are to COVID-19 decided to set up checkpoints not to keep people out but to monitor who's passing through so they could protect their population, and that the white governor of south dakota began challenging them and demanding that they not take these actions to protect their people, and recently is two days ago reached out to the Trump administration, asking for federal help to stop the tribes from doing this. So in New Mexico, you have the net, the Navajo, the native nations and Navajo Nation being told by the governor, they can't go into a border town. And in South Dakota, you have the the the governor telling native nations, they cannot protect their people on the land that's been established as their reservation. This is the problem. And Joe Biden thinks this relationship is just great.As well as Donald Trump does. Stanislas Berteloot  31:35  Mark we've been we've been talking for an hour and I have three more questions, which I really want to ask you. One question is from one of our listeners, who is asking what do you think of President Trump's actions regarding the world since the beginning of his governance, Mark Charles  31:53  So one of the challenges because our nation doesn't have a common memory because we have this mythological History is there's this narrative coming out of our country that President Trump is ruining our nation. He's destroying our nation. We used to be this great nation. And now we're not.  I absolutely agree President Trump has a problem. But he's not the root of the problem.  We have to do to this day we have a declaration of independence that calls native savages. To this day, one of our greatest presidents as a country that we hold up as our greatest President Abraham Lincoln was one of the most white supremacists and ethnic cleansing presidents in our nation's history. People act and I actually wrote that article, I wrote two articles there on my blog on my campaign website, which is MarkCharles2020.com. One of the articles is titled um, President Trump and Biden are both peddling this nostalgia and that's a problem. So they're both talking about how America used to be great. And now it's not so Donald Trump is running to make America great again. Implying it wasn't beforehand. Vice President Biden is saying, well, let's bring America back to its former greatness. Apparently, before President Trump.  The only people who can have a nostalgic memory about this country are white people. They're the only people there's a there's an ad by by President, Vice President Biden just a few weeks ago, that it was a brilliant ad. It was about the COVID-19 pandemic. And it said, it basically used quotes of Donald Trump of his denial of this pandemic and what was happening with it and it it ended was saying it had a quote, where it said, President Trump didn't build a great economy. He destroyed one. Okay. Now, again, that sounds most Americans are going to read that and say, yes, President Trump is doing all these things to destroy our economy and look. Well, this is implying that the economy our nation had three months ago was great. So three months ago, yes, corporate profits were an all-time high. Unemployment was at an all time low. But we had millennials drowning in debt from education. We have most people working a lot of our millennials working two three jobs in the gig economy just to make ends meet. Healthcare is abysmal. Yeah, for white landowning men three months ago, the economy was great. They were making money hand over foot. For everyone else. We were barely scraping by living paycheck to paycheck. See, this is the problem. The the whole notion that we used to be great, President Trump is ruining this great country completely ignores the incredible racism, sexism and white supremacy of our nation. I wrote another article a few months ago, this was during the height of the of the impeachment proceedings. And that article was titled, if you think simply impeaching Donald Trump is the solution, then you don't understand the problem. Absolutely. Donald Trump is a problem. He has appeared very narcissistic. He has this very short-sighted policy. He's, yeah, he's definitely not a very constructive president. But, so we're most of our even great presidents. Abraham Lincoln ethnically cleanse and literally was a white supremacist, blatant white supremacist. Ronald Reagan started war on drugs, which was technically a war on race. Bill Clinton perfected the art of mass incarceration and filled our prisons with people of color. So, not to think Trump is the only problem is has a very, it ignores most of the history of our country. Stanislas Berteloot  36:31  Do you think that this nation who's original sin includes the enslavement of black people, and the extermination of Native American? Do you think that this nation will ever be able to live together? Mark Charles  36:44  The vision of my country of my of my campaign is I am calling the question and I'm asking our country do we want to be a nation where we the people truly mean to all the people? I don't know the answer. answer to that question. I don't know what my nation is going to decide. If they decide No, then that's fine. That's great. We're doing a good job of that because we're obviously not a nation where we the people include everybody. If we do want to be a nation where we the people means all the people, then we have to deal with our foundations. We have to do some foundational level work, the United States of America is not racist and sexist and white supremacists, in spite of our foundations. were racist, sexist, and white supremacists because of our foundations. And we have to address that and so I cannot make my nation not be racist, sexist and white supremacists. I can present a vision and I can ask the question, do we want to be this or not? If we do want to be that, then we have to look at some very serious changes. We need to make And so yeah, that's really what my campaign is all about. And I, to be honest, I know there's a lot of people who like my vision. But there are also a lot of people who are pretty convinced that things are just fine the way they are. Stanislas Berteloot  38:19  One question I always ask is: what is America to you? Mark Charles  38:27  America is a colonial nation founded on stolen lands, broken treaties, enslavement, racism, sexism, ethnic cleansing and genocide. It desperately wants to be something else. But it doesn't know if it's willing to put in the work to become that And that's what I'm trying to ask. And that's what I'm working towards as a candidate for president. That's the vision I'm holding out. That's the very, very basic question. I'm trying to get my country to answer. And I'm being as honest as I can and saying if we want that we have some extremely difficult work that we need to do. Okay. Stanislas Berteloot  39:36  Finally, Mark, do you have any books or movies that you would recommend? Mark Charles  39:42  One of the first books about the Doctrine of Discovery that I was ever exposed to it written by a native author, his name is Steven Newcomb. He's Shawnee and Lenape and he wrote a book called Pagans in the Promised Land. And it's a very in-depth book about the Doctrine of Discovery and it was Once again, one of the first books I was exposed to regarding this doctrine, and I highly respect Steve for the work that he's done. And the way he has tried to press the conversation forward on the doctrine and even trying to get the nations and even the church to acknowledge it. While he and I may not agree on everything about about the doctrine, I highly respect his work, and I think his voice is one that needs to be heard. I also just recently published a book on the Doctrine of Discovery, titled Unsettling Truths, the Ongoing Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery, my co author, Soong-Chan Rah, we published this book last November, November 2019. It came out and it really is the result of years of research looking and trying to understand not only what has been said about the doctrine, but trying to understand how it has become so embedded into the church and how it has affected on the foundation. of the country, but even our history and what we've done as a nation, and so it really is filled with a lot of unsettling truths. And it's a it's a book I'm very proud of. It's one I hope a lot of people in our nation will read, whether or not they're Christian, I often tell people that even if you're not Christian, you have to understand the history of the church. If you don't understand the history of the church, you will never fully understand the history of the nation because the two have become so intertwined over the past 250 years. As far as movies, there's two movies, they're both documentaries that I talked about, I referenced a lot and I really would like people to watch them. One is called homelands for portraits of native action. And it looks at four different tribes, Alaska, Maine, Montana and New Mexico are where they're from, and really wrestling with how these tribes are working reactively to maintain some sense of ownership. And sovereignty or space within their homelands. And I find a lot of insight in this documentary. And I highly recommend it to people. There's another documentary that just came out, even in the past six months is called Somebody's Daughter. And it's looking very closely at the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, tells a very compelling story goes very in-depth into the history and into some of the systemic problems with it. And I highly recommend this documentary. It's not available even online yet, but there's a trailer online but it's still screening in different places around the country. And I highly recommend that if people are able to see a screening of this documentary that they take time to do it. Once again, it's called Somebody's Daughter and was directed by Rain. Stanislas Berteloot  Okay, that's good. Anything else you wish I would have asked you? Mark Charles  One of the things I look most forward to, if elected president is appointing a Native American or nominating a Native American as my secretary of state. One of the reasons I want to do this is because not only does the US not have a common memory of its own history, but most of our allies don't have a common memory of our of their own history. And the reason most of the Western Europe is our ally is because we are all very colonial nations. France at one point was the largest colonial landholder in the in North America. And with the Louisiana Purchase, sold, not only vast amounts of land but huge amounts of people within those lands, to the US and I would really look forward both as president and with my secretary of state as being the head ambassador for this nation to the world, not to break these relationships, but to really challenge them. And to, to press the question, what does it mean for us collectively to deconstruct our colonialism and become better global citizens of this interconnected world we now live in? And I, you know, a lot of what I see going on in Europe, around immigration around closing borders, all these things, I see the root of that coming stemming from this unresolved on acknowledged colonial history that these countries don't know what to do with. And so I I'm looking forward to if I get elected president, to what can what not only what can we do here in the US to deal with our colonial past. But how can that dialogue also extend out to other nations, and even to heads of states of other nations to really challenge and initiate the dialogue about the colonial history that came out of almost all of Western Europe? And yeah, that's something I very much look forward to trying to engage in and to see where that goes and what happens with that. Stanislas Berteloot  If you are not elected president, would you be ready to walk with the elected government in order to improve the relationship with the government and the Native Americans. Mark Charles  One of the biggest challenges is because the things I'm calling for are so foundational, that most... Let me rephrase another way. I'm running as an independent. I'm running as independent because I am convinced after extensive research and an observation that neither the Republican Party nor the Democratic Party have any interest in making these changes at the foundational levels that I'm proposing. They are too much dependent upon these colonial racist, sexist and white supremacist systems, that they are not willing to address foundational level change. And so I'm still trying to work within the system, not the system of the two parties, but of our system of governance and our and our presidential system to introduce this dialogue and get the nation to address these things. But I am quite certain that neither Vice President Biden nor Donald Trump have any interest in engaging the conversations. I'm trying to engage at the levels I'm trying to engage them at.  Stanislas Berteloot  Thank you so much, Mark Charles, for this interview and good luck for your campaign.  Mark Charles  Thank you very much. It's been a pleasure to talk with you today and I look forward to having some more dialogue in the future. Books and Movie RecommendationPagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery by Steven Newcomb Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery by Mark Charles, Soong-Chan Rah Homeland: Four Portraits of Native Action (2005)Director: Roberta GrossmanSomebody's Daughter by Rain  

Zach Carothers, bassist for Portugal. The Man. shares his personal experiences with Psychedelic Medicines. We talk in-depth about the band’s inspiring activism through the PTM Foundation, giving Voice to the marginalized and overlooked. In our Hopeful conversation, Zach delivers a rockstar performance in Realness and Authenticity—telling it how it is, Unabashedly confronting our nation’s mental health challenges and systemic injustices.    Portugal The Man links: https://www.portugaltheman.com/ https://www.facebook.com/portugaltheman https://twitter.com/portugaltheman https://www.instagram.com/portugaltheman/ https://www.youtube.com/user/Portugalthemanband   Feel it Still - Grammy award-winning song for "Best Pop Duo/Group Performance" in 2018:   - https://www.alaskapublic.org/2018/01/29/with-alaska-roots-and-appreciation-portugal-the-man-wins-grammy/ - Acceptance speech by Zach Carothers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChjVbBwbotI    Zachary Carother's Instagram: - https://www.instagram.com/zacharycarothers/?hl=en   12:59 - May is Mental Health Awareness Month: - https://www.nami.org/Get-Involved/Awareness-Events/Mental-Health-Month - https://adaa.org/mental-health-awareness-month - https://www.mhanational.org/mental-health-month   13:19 - Veteran suicide. Approximately 22 veterans per day commit suicide. - https://www.mentalhealth.va.gov/suicide_prevention/data.asp - https://www.mentalhealth.va.gov/docs/data-sheets/2019/2019_National_Veteran_Suicide_Prevention_Annual_Report_508.pdf - https://www.apa.org/monitor/2020/01/ce-corner-suicide - https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2020/03/04/suicide-remains-growing-challenge-for-younger-veterans-survey-shows/   13:43 - Homeless veteran percentage at around 10-15% - http://nchv.org/index.php/news/media/background_and_statistics/ - https://www.va.gov/HOMELESS/pit_count.asp - https://www.hudexchange.info/homelessness-assistance/ahar/#reports - https://www.usich.gov/resources/uploads/asset_library/Homelessness_in_America._Focus_on_Veterans.pdf   13:53 - Ayahuasca and MDMA therapy being used for war veterans as a means of trauma healing and integration. - https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/1/10/18007558/denver-psilocybin-psychedelic-mushrooms-ayahuasca-depression-mental-health - https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-army/2018/05/09/psychedelic-drug-provides-relief-for-veterans-with-ptsd/   14:30 - Approximately 1 of 4 Americans are on psychology meds. 18-19 million suffering with anxiety disorders. 8% of population has PTSD at any given time: - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/1-in-6-americans-takes-a-psychiatric-drug/ - https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/mental-health-disorder-statistics   16:30 - The Sopranos - https://www.hbo.com/the-sopranos   18:20 - Brene Brown and vulnerability - Website: https://brenebrown.com/ - TED Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_the_power_of_vulnerability?language=en - Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unlocking-us-with-bren%C3%A9-brown/id1494350511   19:32 - MDMA and psilocybin being fast-tracked as a breakthrough therapy by the FDA in phase 3 clinical trials with federal government. Johns Hopkins, NYU, University of Wisconsin Madison and Imperial College of London are all doing research and studies.  - https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidcarpenter/2020/05/12/psychedelic-pioneer-rick-doblin-on-fda-trials-of-mdma-most-important-reality-check-of-maps-34-year-history/#4764b2b4230a - https://maps.org/?gclid=CjwKCAjwk6P2BRAIEiwAfVJ0rOfJTnkt5vFPNMiAlRxz-svyM8mddqeFlOeurxAj4Xf5CESnzSah3hoCqqsQAvD_BwE -NYU: https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2018/june/the-underground-world-of-psychedelics-and-the-potential-of-plant.html - https://nyunews.com/2019/03/03/03-04-ops-king/ - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0269881116675512 - Johns Hopkins: https://hopkinspsychedelic.org/  - University of Wisconsin Madison: https://pharmacy.wisc.edu/testing-innovative-mental-health-treatments/ - https://www.dailycardinal.com/article/2019/09/could-psychedelics-be-the-answer-to-chronic-mental-health-issues - Imperial School of London: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/psychedelic-research-centre/   23:37 - Denver and Oakland decriminalization: - https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/08/us/denver-magic-mushrooms-approved-trnd/index.html - https://www.denverpost.com/2019/08/23/psychedelic-mushrooms-denver-decriminalization/ - https://decriminalizedenver.org/ -https://www.npr.org/2019/06/05/730061916/oakland-city-council-effectively-decriminalizes-psychedelic-mushrooms - https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2019/06/05/oakland-california-legalizes-magic-mushrooms-and-peyote/1347888001/     24:00 - Marijuana and other drug offenders in jail: - https://drugabusestatistics.org/marijuana-incarceration/ - https://www.drugpolicy.org/issues/drug-war-statistics - https://www.aclu.org/gallery/marijuana-arrests-numbers - https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/01/22/four-in-ten-u-s-drug-arrests-in-2018-were-for-marijuana-offenses-mostly-possession/   24:39 - Medical Marijuana and state legality: (Matt said 38 states, but it could be closer to 33) - https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/qa/what-us-states-have-legalized-medical-marijuana - https://norml.org/legal/medical-marijuana-2 - https://www.ncsl.org/research/health/state-medical-marijuana-laws.aspx   26:27 - Covid-19 and jail populations: - https://www.npr.org/2020/04/28/846678912/a-ticking-time-bomb-advocates-warn-covid-19-is-spreading-rapidly-behind-bars - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-outbreaks-jails-prisons-cdc-report-covid-19/ - https://www.aclu.org/news/smart-justice/new-model-shows-reducing-jail-population-will-lower-covid-19-death-toll-for-all-of-us/ - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/opinion/coronavirus-prisons.html   27:14 - reparations for marijuana drug offenders in jail.  - https://qz.com/1482349/weed-and-reparations/ - https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2014/07/the-case-for-marijuana-reparations-the-profits-from-drug-legalization-should-be-shared-with-those-affected-by-the-war-on-drugs.html     29:00 - Zachary Carothers on podcast with "Trainer Jeff" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8OxvBIUnz8   29:18 - Indigenous peoples and land acknowledgments/recognition by Portugal. The Man: -https://www.alaskapublic.org/2019/10/28/listen-putting-native-issues-out-front-portugal-the-man-talks-protests-indigenous-influence-on-next-album/ - https://nativenewsonline.net/currents/portugal-the-man-releases-land-acknowledgement-video-to-honor-indigenous-peoples-land/ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSw02mrJtCw   31:19 - Portugal. The Man non-profit foundation - "PTM Foundation" -  https://www.facebook.com/PTMFoundation/ - https://www.instagram.com/ptmfoundation/ - https://linktr.ee/ptmfoundation?fbclid=IwAR2LX3lK8B9-Arvry-EHlXmAAOeyDy9wcRAKpYfUayrmkwoQ9DNZOs1XpWw   35:54 - Indigenous peoples are three times more likely to have PTSD. - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3875613/   36:29 - Peyote in Native American healing process - https://maps.org/news/bulletin/articles/439-bulletin-spring-2020/8138-sacred-peyote-conservation-respecting-indigenous-traditions   45:14 (and 49:34) - Heroic Hearts Project and Jesse Gould - Worth the Fight Podcast guest #3 - https://www.heroicheartsproject.org/ - https://www.heroicheartsproject.org/team - http://worththefightpodcast.org/come-together-episode-3-conversation-with-jesse-gould-heroic-hearts-project   47:32 - Kelly Brogan - https://kellybroganmd.com/   49:56 - Worth The Fight Podcast 316 with Amber & Marcus Capone/VETS - http://worththefightpodcast.org/seals-diving-into-psychedelia-episode-16-amber-marcus-caponevets   50:10 - Ibogaine: - https://maps.org/research/ibogaine-therapy - https://americanaddictioncenters.org/meth-treatment/success-rate-for-ibogaine - https://www.ibogainealliance.org/ibogaine/   57:25 - Sebastian Junger and "Tribe" the book. And veteran childhood sexual trauma.  - http://www.sebastianjunger.com/ - https://www.amazon.com/Tribe-Homecoming-Belonging-Sebastian-Junger/dp/1455566381 - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3640796/   1:00:27- Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery. By Steven Newcomb - https://www.amazon.com/Pagans-Promised-Land-Christian-Discovery/dp/1555916422 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NmlJcy7RrA - https://www.indianz.com/News/2018/10/30/standing-up-to-the-doctrine-of-christian.asp   1:14:58: Rick Doblin - https://maps.org/about/staff - http://worththefightpodcast.org/psychedelic-state-forecast-episode-10-rick-doblin-maps   1:16:25 - Worth The Fight Book on Kindle, Amazon and audiobook.  - https://www.amazon.com/Worth-Fight-Spirituality-Psychedelic-Overcoming-ebook/dp/B07NRCXB72   1:16:40 - Mark Poelzer - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-poelzer-b137a87/ - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=8618647   1:17:28 - Madison Psychedelic Society and Worth The Fight bookclub with Matt Simpson and Day H-J - Madison Psychedelic Society - http://www.madisonpsychedelic.com/  - May 28th, 2020 at 7 pm CST “Worth The Fight” presentation: https://www.meetup.com/Madison-Psychedelic-Society/events/270374700/ - June 17th, 2020 at 6 pm CST “Worth The Fight” Bookclub: https://www.meetup.com/Madison-Psychedelic-Society/events/270374821/   - http://worththefightpodcast.org/navigating-necessary-nuance-a-trip-between-the-lines-wday-h-j-episode-31-day-hj-madison-psychedelic-society    

The legacy of the Doctrine of Christian Discovery is the pervasiveness of Christianity among the victims of the doctrine. Black and Native people succumbed to the pressures of slavery, genocide, assimilation and subjugation and now are predominantly Christians.

Air Date: 9/13/2019 Today we take a look at the history and the process of the building of an American empire that currently spans the globe but allows as few people of color to vote as possible. Be part of the show! Leave a message at 202-999-3991   EPISODE SPONSORS: Bombas.com/BEST | Clean Choice Energy SHOP AMAZON: Amazon USA | Amazon CA | Amazon UK  MEMBERSHIP ON PATREON (Get AD FREE Shows & Bonus Content) VOTE IN THE WEEKLY SHOW TOPICS POLL! SHOW NOTES Ch. 1: Daniel Immerwahr: Empire State of Mind Part 1 - On the Media - Air Date 8-22-19 The history of US imperialism — and why the familiar US map hides the true story of our country. With Northwestern University historian Daniel Immerwahr, author of How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States. Ch. 2: Doctrine of Christian Discovery - Let’s Talk Native - Air Date 3-18-19 I learned that most educators know nothing about the Doctrine of Christian Discovery. How can you teach about colonization, slavery, the American genocide, Westward expansion or imperialism without teaching the origins of it all? Ch. 3: Harvest of Empire Part 1 - Making Contact - Air Date 6-25-19 It's not just jobs and prosperity that draw immigrants to the United States. Many Latin American’s were brought here, or forced to come by dangerous or deadly conditions. And the US often had a role in creating those crises. Ch. 4: Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the US Border Around the World w: Todd Miller - The Majority Report - Air Date 8-27-19 Journalist Todd Miller (@memomiller) joins Sam to discuss his new book, "Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the U.S. Border Around the World." Ch. 5: Harvest of Empire Part 2 - Making Contact - Air Date 6-25-19 It's not just jobs and prosperity that draw immigrants to the United States. Many Latin American’s were brought here, or forced to come by dangerous or deadly conditions. And the US often had a role in creating those crises. Ch. 6: Daniel Immerwahr: Empire State of Mind Part 2 - On the Media - Air Date 8-22-19 The history of US imperialism — and why the familiar US map hides the true story of our country. With Northwestern University historian Daniel Immerwahr, author of How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States. Ch. 7: Blood, lies and the American empire - This is hell - Air Date 5-13-19 Black Agenda Report's Danny Haiphong traces a 300 year history of fake news in America. Danny is author of the book American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News—From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror VOICEMAILS Ch. 8: Gun responsibility vs naked evil - Dave from Olympia, WA FINAL COMMENTS Ch. 9: Final comments on this weeks topics poll MUSIC(Blue Dot Sessions): Opening Theme: Loving Acoustic Instrumental by John Douglas Orr  Moon Bicycle Theme - American Moon Bicycle The Envelope - Aeronaut Great Great Lengths - The Balloonist Streamer - Arc and Crecent Heartland Flyer - The Balloonist UpUpUp and Over - The Balloonist Voicemail Music: Low Key Lost Feeling Electro by Alex Stinnent Closing Music: Upbeat Laid Back Indie Rock by Alex Stinnent   Produced by Jay! Tomlinson Thanks for listening! Visit us at BestOfTheLeft.com Support the show via Patreon Listen on iTunes | Stitcher| Spotify| Alexa Devices| +more Check out the BotL iOS/AndroidApp in the App Stores! Follow at Twitter.com/BestOfTheLeft Like at Facebook.com/BestOfTheLeft Contact me directly at Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Review the show on iTunesand Stitcher!

I learned that most educators know nothing about the Doctrine of Christian Discovery. How can you teach about colonization, slavery, the American genocide, Westward expansion or imperialism without teaching the origins of it all?

There's been some talk about the Doctrine of Christian Discovery and the question should be: How does this racist dogma persist particularly in US law? Chief Justice John Marshal said in 1823 that "if the principle has been asserted in the first instance and afterwards sustained..., it becomes the law of the land and cannot be questioned." Even though the "principle" has been contradicted over and over again it isn't even questioned adequately by us. We pray to their God, pledge to their flag, serve in their military and vote in their elections. So of course our distinction has been wiped away by fraud.

So we have another Native public speaker making a name for himself at least among white audiences. But who do these folks speak for? Mark Charles has a TEDx talk circulating through the internet. He speaks about the Doctrine of Christian Discovery and it is just the the worst. Join me as I play his audio and break it down.

I start with some history. First, I revisit the Sand Creek massacre from November 29th, 1864 and the execution of 38 Dakota on December 26, 1862 in Mankato, Minnesota. Today marks the start of the 16 day journey from South Dakota to Minnesota for those who would be executed and a horseback ride that has been occurring for the last decade to commemorate that journey. Then I give an update on the Akwesasne land claim referendum. Finally, I talk about my battle on a list serve for the Doctrine of Christian Discovery where Susan Harjo condemns my use of "genocide" to describe the stripping of Native identity.

It's time to discuss the Doctrine of Christian Discovery again. Between the push for us to vote in US elections and run for their offices, and the recent resolution by the Choctaw Council proclaiming themselves as a Christian nation; the assimilation associated with the Doctrine of Christian Discovery is still a major force against our people. I'll define it and bring its use up to date.

CSP: Ruderman - Three Moments in the History of Jewish-Christian Relations- Pt2 The Christian Discovery of the Rabbis and the Mishnah in Eighteenth Century England                

The UUA Board has propsed that the UUA General Assembly repudiate the Doctrine of Christian Discovery. Here is a Dec. 2009 interview from the Pagan Newswire Collective featuring Jason Pitzl-Waters interviewing Zay Speer on that Doctrine along with other indegenous related issues. Also, Calypso Chant from Jim Scott and the CUUPS Page on Facebook, and three new chapters.

Producer/Host: Donna Loring Topic: The Christian Doctrine of Discovery What is the doctrine of discovery?  How does it effect Indians today?  What can be done to combat the doctrine? Guests: Maria Girouard, Director, Penobscot Nation Cultural & Historic Preservation, maria.girouard@penobscotnation.org Gale Corey-Toensing, Indian Country Today Resources for learning about the Christian Doctrine of Discovery: George E. Tinker (Osage/Cherokee), Missionary Conquest: The Gospel and Native American Cultural Genocide, Augsburg Press, Minneapolis, 1993. George E. Tinker (Osage/Cherokee),  American Indian Liberation: A Theology of Sovereignty, Orbis Books, Maryknoll, NY, 2008. Newcomb, Steven T. (Shawnee/Lenape), Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery, Fulcrum, Golden, CO, 2008. Miller, Robert J. (Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma), Native America, Discovered and Conquered: Thomas Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and Manifest Destiny, Praeger, Westport, CT, 2006. United Nations General Assembly “The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples”, 2007, Available for download from UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, UNPFII, click EN for English language version; also find background information on this website. Deloria, Vine, Jr (Lakota), God is Red: A Native View of Religion, Fulcrum, Golden, CO, 1973. Awkwesasne Notes, Mohawk Nation (with Chief Oren Lyons, John Mohawk, Jose Barreiro), “Basic Call to Consciousness”, 2005, Book Publishing, Summertown, TN Aperture, Michael E. Hoffman, Executive Director, “Strong Hearts: Native American Visions and Voices, Aperture, NY, 1995. Williams, Robert A 1955, Like a Loaded Weapon: The Rehnquist Court, Indian Rights and the Legal History of Racism in America Copyright 2005 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota www.doctrineofdiscovery.org The post Wabanaki Windows 2/16/10 first appeared on WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives.