Outcome Documents for
200 Years of Johnson v. M’Intosh (JvM): Indigenous Responses to the Religious Foundations of Racism
This website is the official archive of the outcome publications from the Henry J. Luce Foundation Grant Funded project “200 Years of Johnson v. M’Intosh (JvM): Indigenous Responses to the Religious Foundations of Racism". Professor Philip P. Arnold was the PI on this project which ran from 2022-2024. Project activities included a conference, podcasts, and various types of publications.
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“200 Years of Johnson v. M’Intosh (JvM): Indigenous Responses to the Religious Foundations of Racism,” is a collaborative initiative made possible through relationships developed over 30 years between academic and Indigenous communities. At its core, the project seeks to interrogate and critically examine connections between the Doctrine of Christian Discovery (DOCD), the Catholic Papal Bulls that undergird the Doctrine, and the Doctrine’s pernicious influence on United States Indian Law today.
The 200th anniversary of JvM provides an excellent moment to challenge the theology and jurisprudence of DOCD and this critical Supreme Court decision. The project will deliver a range of digital products and written works combined with a host of public outreach activities to raise awareness about the harmful impacts of the DOCD and provide support for a global movement of Indigenous People’s that seek to repudiate it.
S06E05: The Sloan Lecture - The Oneidas, the Best Land, and the Erie Canal - By Susan Brewer
In seventh grade social studies, we had learned about the original inhabitants, the Haudenosaunee or the people of the Longhouse. But the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cougas, Senecas, and Tuscarora had disappeared from our history books after the American Revolution.
Philip P. Arnold
Sandra Bigtree
Adam DJ Brett
S06E04: Washington Said Burn The Corn and New Yorkers Brought Surveyors
And then I started to realize, as I kept going, that the American Revolution really wasn't about freedom. The American Revolution was about all that land on the frontier.
Philip P. Arnold
Sandra Bigtree
Adam DJ Brett
S06E03: How Rethinking God, Gender, And Nature Can Heal A Burning World
We trace how dominionist readings of Genesis 1:28 fueled the Doctrine of Discovery witch burnings and modern domination systems then pull forward correctives from multiple wells Haudenosaunee wisdom.
Philip P. Arnold
Sandra Bigtree
Adam DJ Brett
S6E02: A Theologian Confronts the Doctrine of Discovery and Calls for Institutional Repair
we can't do the work of justice without recognizing that Fordham University is a predominantly white institution It's been white serving for most of its history it bears that stamp of white interests
Philip P. Arnold
Sandra Bigtree
Adam DJ Brett
U.S. v. King Mountain Tobacco Co., Inc. (9th Cir. Court, August 13, 2012) - Domination Translator Series - Part 15
Part 15 of Steven T. Newcomb's Domination Translator Series examining the Doctrine of Discovery in U.S. Supreme Court cases. U.S. v. King Mountain Tobacco (2012) asserted federal excise tax authority over Yakama Nation based on plenary power doctrine.
Steven T. Newcomb
McGirt v. Oklahoma (U.S. Supreme Court, July 2020) - Domination Translator Series - Part 14
Part 14 of Steven T. Newcomb's Domination Translator Series examining the Doctrine of Discovery in U.S. Supreme Court cases. McGirt v. Oklahoma (2020) upheld Creek Nation jurisdiction while affirming federal plenary power based on the Doctrine of Discovery.
Steven T. Newcomb
The Haudenosaunee Cases: Onondaga Nation v. N.Y. (Argued Oct. 12, 2012, decided October 19, 2012) - Domination Translator Series - Part 13
Part 13 of Steven T. Newcomb's Domination Translator Series examining the Doctrine of Discovery in U.S. Supreme Court cases. Onondaga Nation's lawsuit to recover ancestral lands was dismissed using federal Indian law doctrines based on discovery and domination.
Steven T. Newcomb
The Haudenosaunee Cases: Oneida Indian Nation v. County of Oneida (Aug. 9th 2010) - Domination Translator Series - Part 12
Part 12 of Steven T. Newcomb's Domination Translator Series examining the Doctrine of Discovery in U.S. Supreme Court cases. Oneida Indian Nation v. County of Oneida (2010) examined equitable defenses used to bar Native land claims spanning centuries.
Steven T. Newcomb
The Haudenosaunee Cases: Cayuga Indian Nation v. Pataki (2nd Cir. June 28, 2005) - Domination Translator Series - Part 11
Part 11 of Steven T. Newcomb's Domination Translator Series examining the Doctrine of Discovery in U.S. Supreme Court cases. Cayuga Nation v. Pataki (2005) explored Haudenosaunee land claims and the suppressed 1922 Everett Report on Native treaty rights.
Steven T. Newcomb
White v. University of California (9th Cir., 2014) - Domination Translator Series - Part 10
Part 10 of Steven T. Newcomb's Domination Translator Series examining the Doctrine of Discovery in U.S. Supreme Court cases. UC professors attempted to prevent repatriation of Kumeyaay Nation ancestral remains, invoking tribal sovereignty immunity doctrines.
Steven T. Newcomb
