WTF, Vatican?

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The Vatican made a decision more than 500 years, ago.*

It is still harming Native Americans, today.


WTF, Vatican ? Take a look a recent developments, if you would, please.

Newsweek feature story covers the historic firsts in Indian Country to include Haaland, Sharice Davids, Peggy Flanagan

In tandem with a feature-length story by Newsweek correspondent Rebecca Nelson titled Native American Women Made History in the Midterms.


https://newsmaven.io/indiancountryt...kes-cover-of-newsweek-rErbERqN9keb2ZHFL57Q6g/


'Termination is here': Tribes rally against Trump administration

Wednesday, November 14,2018

Termination is here," Rob Sanderson Jr., a leader of the Tlingit and Haida Tribes from Alaska, asserted during a rally at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.


https://www.indianz.com/News/2018/11/14/termination-is-here-tribes-rally-against.asp

https://newsmaven.io/indiancountrytoday/news/


American Indian teens headed to Vatican, hoping to overturn historic papal decrees

MARCH 17, 2018

They formed the basis of the so-called Doctrine of Discovery, which shapes U.S. Indian policy to this day and haunts Indians' well-being, the group says.

U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a landmark 1823 case that the titles of land discovered and conquered belonged to the conquering nation. American Indians only had the right to occupy it. As recently as 2005, the Supreme Court referred to this Doctrine of Discovery in a ruling against the Oneida Indian nation of New York, advocates note.



MARCH 17, 2018

http://www.startribune.com/american...to-overturn-historic-papal-decrees/477183033/


On May 4, 1493, Pope Alexander VI issued a papal document known as the bull Inter Caetera . The document, issued at the request of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, purported to "give" to the two Catholic monarchs all the lands which Cristobal Colon (Columbus) had "discovered" and any such lands that should be "discovered" in the future. The only limit that the pope placed on his grant was that the Ferdinand and Isabella should not attempt to "take over" lands that had been previously taken over by some other Christian prince. Among other things, the pope stated it to be his desire that non-Christian nations be "subjugated" (militarily overtaken) and made to become Christians. The pope saw the Catholic monarchs as working to spread the "Christian Empire." "We trust in Him [the Catholic God]," said the pope, "from whom empires, dominations, and all good things proceed."

The empire-domination model presumes that it is justifiable for an immigrant sovereign (say England. France, Spain, or Portugal) to happen upon a country inhabited by free and independent nations, and then to simply presume "the right" to militarily take over that country by force, and to put the original inhabitants under the foreign rule of the empire-builders. The papal bull is reflective of a language system which presumes that it is permissible for one people to assume a divine right of empire and domination over another people.

http://ili.nativeweb.org/ili_info.html#5

Steven Newcomb: Religious doctrine guides Indian law and policy


http://www.indianz.com/News/2015/10/08/steven-newcomb-religious-doctr.asp

*Special thanks to PBS and WGBH


Native America (TV series)

New World Rising #104

A reminder of Laws laid down by Europeans, that America still bases their decisions on, in 2018


It is 2018, not 218

 

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Once, again, Native Americans will gather in Plymouth, MA in November


November 2018, 49th National Day of Mourning is a bit different, this year-


This year's NDOM is dedicated to our thousands of relatives who are migrants and are being abused by ICE and other government agencies, including having their children stolen from them. We didn’t cross the border – The border crossed us!

(It seems that many of the immigrants seeking refuge and asylum in America are Indigenous people native to Mexico and South America.)


1970, the beginning of Truth Being Told in Public


National Day of Mourning began in 1970 when a Wampanoag man, Wamsutta Frank James, was asked to speak at a state dinner celebrating the 350th anniversary of the pilgrim landing. He refused to speak false words in praise of the white man for bringing civilization to us poor heathens. Native people from throughout the Americas came to Plymouth, where they mourned their forebears who had been sold into slavery, burned alive, massacred, cheated, and mistreated since the arrival of the Pilgrims in 1620.

http://www.uaine.org

Native Americans were given legal rights to march in a procession of protest- 10/19/98


Thursday, November 22, 2018 Cole's Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts, 12 noon