YouTube: #DismantlingTheDoctrineOfDiscovery National Lawyers Guild Webinar with Tupac Enrique Acosta of TONATIERRA
June 25, 2020 - Decolonization, Discovery, Sovereignty, and Neocolonialism
2) Consciousness:
Develop a personal critical consciousness on the issues which are pervaded by
the institutionalization of the Doctrine of Discovery from the local-regional,
continental-global context.
3) Reveal:
Create a shared community understanding on how the dehumanizing principles of
the Doctrine of Discovery are relevant today and continue to provide the
cultural framework for the ongoing colonization and genocide of the Original
Nations of this continent, the Great Turtle Island Abya Yala.
4) Take a
position. Denounce and repudiate the Doctrine of Discovery and the
underlying pathological schema of patriarchy: DOMINATION.
5) DISMANTLE:
Take action, and follow through with inter-generational decolonization
strategies.
Q: To what extent and effect does the proclamation of "Indigenous Peoples Day" by the municipalities, states, or subsets of the US colonial settler state legaloid system address and correct the underlying racist doctrines of "Christian Discovery" and federal "Plenary Power" in violation of the right of Indigenous Peoples to Self Determination?
A: None.(absolutely) By. Design.
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"A colonial, racist doctrine of religious supremacy is still at the core of US “federal Indian law.” Native peoples are “merely occupants” not owners in their lands. They have the same legal status as “brute animals.” That is the “law” that still upholds colonizing, extractive industries and governments destroying the world’s ecosystems.
McGirt may have some usefulness to those who will try to block the EPA – Oklahoma deal. The majority said Congress must be “clear” when it “disestablishes” a Native nation. Was the tiny provision hidden in the “Transportation Equity Act” a “clear expression” of the intent of Congress to impose state jurisdiction over Native nations surrounded by Oklahoma? That will be the technical question.
The real question is how much longer America will tolerate a racist religious doctrine as part of its legal system."
At this point, it becomes relevant and timely
to reference the August18, 2020
request for information directed to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo by
the Inter-American
Commission on Human Rights
(IACHR) for the purposes of monitoring compliance by the US government
in regards to recommendations set forth by the IACHR in the land claims Case
11.140 of the Western Shoshone (1999) with Mary and Carrie Dann as
petitioners:
1.Considering
that Mary Dann passed away in 2005, inform whether the State has taken actions
to provide Carrie Dann with an effective remedy from the State for the human
rights violations that she suffered, including the adoption of legislative of
other measures to ensure respect for the Danns' right to property in accordance
with Articles II, XVIII and XXIII of the American Declaration in connection
with their claims to property rights inthe Western Shoshone ancestral lands.
2.Considering
the information provided by the State in the working meeting held in the 169th
IACHR's Period of Sessions, inform the process' progress of reforming
regulations and procedures to ensure that the property rights of indigenous
persons are determined in accordance with the rights established in the
American Declaration, including Articles II, XVIII and XXIII of the Declaration.
Also inform whether there has been progress in the Federal Government's
initiatives to protect the rights of Indigenous peoples, including the actions
to inform State agencies about the principles contained in the United
Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
The
IACHR has advised Secretary Pompeo that a deadline of October 15, 2020
has been set to receive information in timely manner.
THE SIN OF WHITE SUPREMACY: CHRISTIANITY, RACISM, & RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY IN AMERICA By Jeannine Hill Fletcher
[W]e need to interrogate the relationship of White supremacy
and Christian identity. What this investigation will help us see is that the
theology of Christian supremacy gave birth to the ideology of White supremacy,
and that White supremacy grew from a dangerous ideology to an accepted position
inherited by Whites. The systems and structures of White supremacy have been
intimately joined with Christian supremacy, such that undoing White supremacy
will also require relinquishing the ideologies and theologies of Christian
supremacy.
The history of transition from a chartered colony of
Christendom, to a territory ruled by force of violent invasion by the European
American “white” colonizers, to the formation of a polity of statehood and
subsequent admission into the union of states called the USA, also required a
systemic mechanism to control the allegiances, nationality and citizenship of
the constituencies of the new republic as a whole. In the absence of the
absolute command of allegiance of the Sovereign, in this case King George of
England, the colonies broke from the modus operandi of the cartel of the Divine
Right of Kings (Christendom). It became necessary to format the public
consciousness in a systematic manner, manufacturing consent for the
rationalization and expansion of territorial dominion via political acts of
allegiance to the Divine Right of States. It became necessary to manufacture
the mythology of America.
Today is a day
of emergence. Today we intend to break out
of the constraints not only of the Doctrine of Discovery, but of doctrine
itself with the call to courage to all humanity.
We call for the
courage that is necessary in order to vision a New Horizon for Mother Earth as
she is reborn from the Seas of Emergence. The millennial journey of the Nations
and Pueblos of Indigenous Peoples, guardians of Mother Earth begins once again here
today, guided in our quest by the spirit of Self Determination and Community Sustainability.
We look back now
across the generation of our ancestors, and we look forward to the path of the
future generations and Here-Now (Nican
Tlacah) set our sights. We
direct our leadership to engage with All of our Relations of this Sacred Mother
Earth to let our path of Self Determination to be known. Let it be told, let it be respected and
and let it be protected. It is not about what we
want, it is what we WILL.
We are now completely conscious
that our total liberation can only be expressed through the complete exercise
of our self-determination. Our unity is based on this fundamental right.
Our self-determination is not just a
simple declaration.
We
must guarantee the necessary conditions that permit complete exercise of our self-determination;
and this, in turn must be expressed as complete autonomy for our Indigenous
Peoples. Without Indigenous self-government and without control of our
territories, there can be no autonomy.
The
achievement of this objective is a principal task for Indigenous Peoples
however, through our struggles we have learned that our problems are not different,
in many respects, from those of other popular sectors. We are convinced that we
must march alongside the campesinos, the workers, the marginalized sectors,
together with intellectuals committed to our cause, in order to destroy the
dominant system of oppression and construct a new society, pluralistic,
democratic and humane, in which peace is guaranteed.
The
existing nation states of the Americas, their constitutions and fundamental
laws are judicial/political expressions that negate our socio-economic,
cultural and political rights.
From
this point in our general strategy of struggle, we consider it to be a priority
that we demand complete structural change; change which recognizes the inherent
right to self-determination through Indigenous self-government and through
the control of our territories.
This preliminary study establishes that the Doctrine of Discovery has been
institutionalized in law and policy, on national and international levels, and
lies at the root of the violations of indigenous peoples’ human rights, both
individual and collective. This has resulted in State claims to and the mass
appropriation of the lands, territories and resources of indigenous peoples.
Both the Doctrine of Discovery and a holistic structure that we term the
Framework of Dominance have resulted in centuries of virtually unlimited
resource extraction from the traditional territories of indigenous peoples.
This, in turn, has resulted in the dispossession and impoverishment of indigenous
peoples, and the host of problems that they face today on a daily basis.
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