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Ojai Valley Film Screening

Join us for a screening of The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code in Ojai, Wednesday May 21, at 6:00PM. The cost is $20 and will help support

An Original Nations’ Examination of “Freedom,” “Human” and “Human Rights”

In our view, the claim of a right of domination, and the behaviors that follow from that claim, are the main cause of the global problems we all face. This is w

Conflicting Perspectives Regarding the Holy Mountain Called “San Francisco Peaks,” and Other Sacred and Significant Places of Original Nations and Traditional Healers

Our original nation ancestors understood mountains and other geographical areas as living beings imbued with spiritual energy. Our spiritual people knew and sti

Revoke the Papal Bulls

The context begins with the free existence of our Native nations and peoples, extending back to the beginning of our time through our oral histories and traditi

The Doctrine Of Discovery: Unmasking The Domination Code

The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code The film directed by Sheldon Wolfchild, (Dakota) and co-produced by Steven T. Newcomb (Shawnee, Lenape)

The Doctrine of Christian Domination, the Apache People, and Oak Flat

By Steven Newcomb (Shawnee/Lenape) The Apache Stronghold case, regarding the Apache Sacred Site (Chi’ Chil Bildagoteel) called “Oak Flat,” is now before t

Oak Flat and Pope Alexander VI’s Papal Decree of Domination in U.S. Law

Prior to the invasion of this continent by representatives of the monarchs of Western Christendom, the original nations and peoples of the continent, such as th

The Oceti Sakowin (Great Sioux Nation) Territory

What “#LandBack” Leaves Out of Focus “A return to an earlier or normal condition” is one definition of the word “back.” In relation to land and Nati

“Conquest” is Another Word for Domination

War—or the act or state of exerting violence against another—is the context for the word conquest. Another way of understanding “a conquest” is, “having a

The 1977 UN Conference On “Indigenous Populations”

The International Indian Treaty Council’s Intervention In September of 1977, representatives of Indigenous nations and peoples from around the world trave

Reconciliation

I reckon that reconciliation is a clever trap word a trick of the mind a language technique now used all the time a deft move on the Chess Board of Life so we’l

Truth and Lie Commissions

There’s been no friendship between Native nations And the domination system For us to patch back together, There’s been no harmony with the colonizers To try an

Let’s Examine the Category Indigenous

We begin with the entirety of a People that is living in a particular geographical space, with its language, culture, traditions, and economic patterns. They ar

Divine Land Grants

by Paul Gilk “The disclosure of a myth is deemed academic as long as the myth belongs to somebody else. Recognizing one’s own myth is always much more dif

An Exorcism, Junipero Serra, and the Papal Bulls

On October 17, 2020, the Archbishop of San Francisco, Salvatore Cordileone, performed an exorcism ceremony outside the San Rafael Church, where protestors had r

Sept. 27th Screening of our Doctrine of Discovery Documentary

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The U.S. Government’s Christian Nations Argument in Tee-Hit-Ton Indians v. United States (1955)

Sixty-six years ago, in November of 1954, the U.S. Justice Department submitted a bizarre argument to the Supreme Court in the case Tee-Hit-Ton Indians v. Unite

“God’s” Gift of a Right of Domination

In the Old Testament of the Bible, we find the story of a god who chose a particular people with whom he wanted to have a special relationship. Because he chose

Trump’s Speech at Mt. Rushmore: The Bully at the Bully Pulpit

President Donald J. Trump delivered a speech on July 3, 2020 at the mountain formation which the people of the Oceti Sakowin (or “the Great Sioux Nation&#

How Their Domination Began

Here is the cover of a book that I found in a used bookstore in Rapid City, South Dakota in the Oceti Sakowin Territory. This book was published in 1954, the ye

When Will We Stop Accepting a Reality-System of Domination?

A former professor of mine, C. A. Bowers (1935-2017), was a brilliant and prolific writer who wrote 27 books. He cautioned against people applying to themselves

Reconciliation and Canada’s Claim of a Right of Domination Over Native Nations

Let’s take a closer look at the Truth and Reconciliation process embraced by Canada. In one context, “to reconcile” means “to restore a friendship.” Let’s be cl

A Thought

As far as the colonizers were concerned, we were never supposed to survive let alone master the papal documents and legal doctrines of Christian domination that

Finding the Papal Bull Documents

In 1988, I realized that I had never actually read the original language from the papal bulls of the fifteenth century. I had only read a few sentences quoted i

A Brief Comment About Supreme Court Reaffirms the Doctrine of Christian Discovery and Domination

In what is being described as a “landmark” 5-4 decision, McGirt v. Oklahoma, the Supreme Court decided today that Congress never violated a 1866 tre

Examples of Domination and Racism in an Excerpt from the book America Moves West (Third Edition), Robert E. Riegel, New York: Henry Holt and Company (1957).

REMOVING THE INDIAN MENACE Early settlers in the West were surrounded by numerous dangers, by no means the least was the Indian. While the Indian was in many wa

Tecumseh’s Speech

Tecumseh’s Speech The following is a speech by the great Shawnee leader Tecumseh, as recounted by the Pottawatomie leader, Chief Simon Pokagon. Simon Pokagon wr

The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code

At long last, here is our movie directed by Sheldon Wolfchild (Dakota) and based on my book Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Disc

The Principle of Prescription

In his book Elements of International Law, first published in 1836, Henry Wheaton pointed out that “the general consent of mankind has established the principle

An explanation of the pattern of domination in the Papal Bull “Romanus Pontifex” (Roman Pontiff) issued by Pope Nicholas V in 1454

Below we see yet another example of the background pattern that is brought to the foreground and revealed by using the Domination Translator (the red lettering)

Are We As Native People Living Inside and Subject to the Mental World of the White Man?

In Red Man’s Land—White Man’s Law (1971), Wilcomb Washburn says he “hopes to describe” what he calls “the process by which the Indian moved from sovereign to wa

Colonization and the Human Construction of a Reality System of Domination

Prior to the first voyage of Columbus in 1492, the original nations of the two continents that are now called North and South America (the “Western Hemisphere”)

Was the United States Founded As a Democracy?

In his splendid book The Lawless Law of Nations (1925), Sterling E. Edmunds says that governments may be defined as “groups of men possessing arbitrary power ov

The Domination Translator Applied to Some Passages of Pope Alexander VI’s Inter Caetera Papal Decree of May 4, 1493

The Domination Code and Translator The Domination Code is embedded in the English language. The code is just there in the background of our everyday language an

The Independence of Native Nations Was Supposedly Ended (“Diminished”)As A Result of the Christian World Becoming Knowledgeable of the Geographical Location of our Nations

One of the most significant sections of the Johnson v. McIntosh ruling of 1823, is Chief Justice John Marshall’s assertion that the Indians’ rights to complete

The Principle of Prescription

In his book Elements of International Law, first published in 1836, Henry Wheaton pointed out that “the general consent of mankind has established the principle

Visiting the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University in 1989

Years ago I was visiting the John Carter Brown Library at the Brown University campus. That is where Henry Wheaton went to college. He was the Reporter for the

A View of Slavery and White Domination

Ever since the election of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States, a renewed focus has been placed on “white supremacy” and “white nationalism”

The Deep Desire for Christian Domination

The desire of Christian nations to dominate infidel nations and their lands, led to a desire to “discover” or locate any infidel lands throughout th

Arithmetic in federal-indian-law

To follow this article you won’t even need a calculator. All you’ll need is an understanding of arithmetic and how to subtract. Take, for example, the equ

Debunking federal-indian-law

To debunk means “to expose the sham or falseness of; to show that something is less important, less good, or less true than it has been made to appear; to

The Principle of Subtraction in U.S. federal-indian-law

Steven Newcomb (Shawnee, Lenape) It’s not necessary to have a basic understanding of mathematics to follow this article. You won’t even need a calculator. All y

Tecumseh Speech As Recounted by Simon Pokagon

Tecumseh’s Speech: The following is a speech by the great Shawnee leader Tecumseh, as recounted by the Pottawatomie leader, Chief Simon Pokagon. Simon Pokagon w