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Exploring Theme: "What is the Doctrine of Discovery?"

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September 29, 2023


Pope repudiates the Doctrine of Discovery: What Happens Now?

On the eve of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Pam Palmater looks at the Doctrine of Discovery and opens up the discussion of what comes next.  APTN News: After decades of advocacy by Indigenous Peoples worldwide, the Pope has finally repudiated the so-called “doctrine of discovery” and the immoral acts committed by colonial...

April 14, 2023


The Doctrine of Discovery and its grip on Indigenous lands

APTN: The Vatican responded to Indigenous demands and formally repudiated the “Doctrine of Discovery.” There are many questions surrounding the doctrine. APTN News asked experts to help explain whether it actually can be rescinded, renounced or revoked....

March 2, 2023


200 Years of Denial: Johnson v. McIntosh and the Doctrine of Discovery

First Peoples Law Report by Bruce McIvor This week marks the 200th anniversary of the US Supreme Court’s 1823 decision Johnson v. M’Intosh. In the decision, Chief Justice Marshall relied on the racist doctrine of discovery as the basis for European nations’ asserted sovereignty over Indigenous Peoples’ lands upon ‘discovering’ them. The doctrine was imported into Canadian law through...

July 29, 2022


Doctrine of Discovery is a ‘legal fiction,’ but revoking it won’t herald immediate changes, experts say

APTN: The principle is entrenched in Canadian and U.S. law and may be a challenge to dismantle. Chelsea Brunelle, left, her mother Kim and Sarain Fox hold up a banner calling on the Pope to rescind the Doctrine of Discovery outside the cathedral in Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, Que. Photo: Emelia Fournier/APTN.  Pope Francis and his entourage of Vatican...

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