Doctrine of Discovery Resources

"Seizure of land. Trail of Tears. Forced removal of children to boarding schools. Pipelines through ancient burial grounds. The list of wrongs goes on and on. In The Land Is Not Empty, Sarah Augustine and Dan Peplow call the church to reckon with the devastating legacy of a white settlers' faith to indigenous peoples around the globe. Together they uncover the harm of the Doctrine of Discovery, rooted in the fifteenth century, which gave Christian governments the moral and legal right to seize lands in which indigenous people were living."

This resource is from Mennonite Church Canada.

Contents:
Pulling the threads of discovery / editorial by Cheryl Woelk & Steve Heinrichs -- Section 1 Discovery past -- Requirement / Allison Brookins -- At the helm of discovery: church and land theft / Jennifer Reid -- Red earth, white lies / Janet Rogers -- International law of colonialism / Robert J. Miller -- Timeline: dates of discovery and dispossession / Steve Heinrichs -- Still questioning: the theft of Indigenous children / Shari Russell -- Sweet fiction of owning land / Rudy Wiebe -- On nobody's land: understanding Terra Nullius / Andrew Fitzmaurice -- Is exorcism necessary? Casting out colonial ghosts / Grace Li Xiu Woo -- Treaty promises and settlement / Michael Asch -- "Discovered" but not defeated / Gord Hill -- Timeline: remembering resistance / Steve Heinrichs -- Section 2: Discovery present -- My car / Alison Brookins -- Reconciling the nation-to-nation relationship / Lynn Gehl -- Need for courage: discussing settler stumbling blocks to solidarity / Sylvia McAdam in conversation with Steve Heinrichs -- From colonial indoctrinations to Indigenous lifeways / Chickadee Richard -- Ceremonies of belief: unsettling Mennonite stories / Robert Zacharias -- From both ends of the pipe: a conversation / Angelina McLeod & Chuck Wright -- Economics of dispossession / Mark Brett -- Human supremacism and the Doctrine of Discovery / Derrick Jensen -- Section 3: How do we see each other? -- Discover repentance / Ramone Romero -- Long, sad history of "discovery" / Walter Brueggemann -- Locus Dei / Nicholas Burns -- Rediscovering lost values / Gordon Matthies -- Rites of discovery: St. Junipero, Lewis and Clark / Tink Tinker -- Mapping the great divide / Steven Charleston -- Unmapping / Denise Nadeau -- Planting trees in exile / Alain Epp Weaver -- When helping causes harm / Rachelle Friesen -- Living in the shadows of doctrine / Stan McKay -- Mission -- omission -- commission? / Marion Grau -- Dismantling injustice through balance and harmony / Iris de Leon-Hartshorn -- Section 4: Return, repair, rebuild -- On repudiation: a Cherokee perspective / Randy S. Woodley -- Calls to action, br-ump-bump / Janet Rogers -- Making words real: a conversation on repudiation / Sara Anderson & Joe Heikman -- We must not be silent: churches act against the Doctrine -- Healing from "Lies that make us crazy": practices of restorative solidarity / Elaine Enns & Ched Myers -- Listening to be undone / Chris Hiller -- Found wanting: the Australian church and moral leadership / Sarah Maddison -- Share the gifts: honour the treaties / Elaine Bishop -- Seeking a spiritual covenant: possibilities in the Haldimand Tract / Adrian Jacobs & Karen Kuhnert -- To cede and surrender / Steve Heinrichs -- Extending the conversation -- Doctrine in dialogue: a study guide / Tim Runtz -- Editor's picks for future reading.

"Healing Haunted Histories tackles the oldest and deepest injustices on the North American continent. Violations which inhabit every intersection of settler and Indigenous worlds, past and present. Wounds inextricably woven into the fabric of our personal and political lives. And it argues we can heal those wounds through the inward and outward journey of decolonization."

"You cannot discover lands already inhabited.Injustice has plagued American society for centuries. And we cannot move toward being a more just nation without understanding the root causes that have shaped our culture and institutions. In this prophetic blend of history, theology, and cultural commentary, Mark Charles and Soong-Chan Rah reveal the far-reaching, damaging effects of the "Doctrine of Discovery.""

"Pagans in the Promised Land provides a unique, well-researched challenge to U.S. federal Indian law and policy. It attacks the presumption that American Indian nations are legitimately subject to the plenary power of the United States."

"The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples"