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We launch this Podcast with Columbus’ arrival to the “New World.”
This event issued forth the “Age of Discovery.” Although we were
taught Columbus was in search of spices, he was actually sailing
under 15th century Papal edicts known as the Doctrines of Christian
Discovery [DOCD], decreeing that explorers were “…to invade, search
out, capture, vanquish, and subdue all Saracens [Muslims] and
pagans whatsoever, and other enemies of Christ…to reduce their
persons to perpetual slavery,…[and] convert them to his use and
profit…” Following the fall of Constantinople, these Papal Bulls
were issued to legitimate Portugal’s exploits in extracting gold in
West Africa and capturing slaves. By 1492, the Trans-Atlantic slave
trade began with Columbus’ first crossing. The DOCD established the
spiritual justification to bring the world under total dominion of
the Church. The patriarchal hierarchy was constituted under an
Almighty Supreme God at the helm—thus giving the Church full access
to the world’s resources, by having dominion over Indigenous
Peoples, their lands, and destruction of their cultures. These
Christian decrees soon became the legal principal used during the
Protestant Reformation, by giving credence to any Protestant claim
to Indigenous lands in the Americas. By 1823, the DOCD was codified
into US property law by the Supreme Court in Johnson v M’Intosh. As
recently as 2005, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg upheld the DOCD in
her written majority opinion against the Oneida in; City of
Sherrill v Oneida Nation. Following 15th century Christian
imperialism, through to the 19th century formulation of US law, we
are able to identify today, how the DOCD continues to be utilized
all over the world by multi-national corporations. Corporations who
continue to justify resource extraction through the seizure and
destruction of Indigenous lands, and who perpetrate cultural
genocide through the 15th century fiction of “terra nullius”—empty
land, and under the guise of economic development.The goal of this
Podcast is to help identify these systems of domination that have
been sustained by greed and power, through the subjugation of human
beings and the natural world.
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