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Thursday, July 28th, 2011

Indigenous Groups Challenge Doctrine of Christian Discovery and Domination

Author:     JASON COPPOLA
Source:     truthout.org
Publication Date:     Friday 22 July 2011
 Link: Indigenous Groups Challenge Doctrine of Christian Discovery and Domination
Stephan:   This is part of the emerging trend in which Atlantic Caucasian cultural values will no longer be the dominate worldview. Some will find this very uncomfortable, but research data makes it clear it is true. It is the history no one wants to teach, and it isn't just peculiar to us. Throughout history come cultures have dominated and others have been dominated. But we live in this swing of the pendulum.

Ask of Me and I shall Give to thee the Heathen as Thine Inheritance and the Uttermost parts of the Earth for Thy Possession. -Psalms 2:8

Margarita Gutierrez Romero is the president of the State Coordinator of Indigenous Women Organizations in Chiapas, Mexico. In New York City to participate in the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII), Romero told us, ‘Indigenous peoples are being permanently alienated from our being. We are being stripped, ripped off, and plundered of our values, our spirituality, our spirits, even of our gods,’ she said.

During the two weeks of the annual May forum, indigenous peoples and nations from every corner of the globe converge on the original Lenape island of Manhattan in order to have their voices heard by the world body concerning the violations of their rights, environmental destruction, rising suicide rates, water contamination, as well the effects of climate change.

Romero was speaking at a side event about the root of the problems affecting her people – the dehumanization caused by the ‘Doctrine of Christian Discovery.’

The ‘doctrine,’ which will be the theme of next year’s highly anticipated UNPFII, would have sounded like conspiracy not too long ago.

Today, thanks to exhaustive research by indigenous […]

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