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Introduction #

• Jeannine Hill Fletcher speaks on the uncomfortable subjects that affect us all, and insists that we cannot explore justice nor equality without first addressing racial justice and equality. She discusses the forces and means used to strip Indigenous peoples of their land through indoctrination, religious conversion, marriage, and white generational inheritance of otherwise stolen land. Jeannine insists that we must fully understand the systematic advantages that white christian culture has created and our place within it. The interview continues into matters of christian patriarchy and indigenous matriarchy, and discusses just how important it was to break the matrilineal bonds of indigenous people to subvert their culture and their connection with the land itself.

Resources #

• Hill Fletcher, Jeannine. Grace of the Ghosts: A Theology of Institutional Reparation. First edition., Fordham University Press, 2025.

• Hill Fletcher, Jeannine. The Sin of White Supremacy: Christianity, Racism, and Religious Diversity in America. Orbis Books, 2017.

Related Episodes #

• S06E01: Defending Mother Earth from The Doctrine of Christian Discovery #NoKings
• S06E03: How Rethinking God, Gender, And Nature Can Heal A Burning World

Credits #

• Music: Onondaga Social Dance songs performed by Orris Edwards and Regis Cook
• Producers: Jordan Loewen-Colón and Adam DJ Brett and Crow Richardson
• Show notes: Adam DJ Brett

Citation #

Philip P. Arnold and Sandra Bigtree, "S6E02: A Theologian Confronts the Doctrine of Discovery and Calls for Institutional Repair" Mapping the Doctrine of Discovery (Podcast), January 22, 2026. https://podcast.doctrineofdiscovery.org/season6/episode-02/.