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The Doctrine of Discovery (discoverer takes all) was the pre-eminent ideology used to assert that European nations had the right to claim and seize Indigenous lands, establish territorial power and subordinate or destroy Native peoples.
Peace, Social and Earth Concerns Committee
Anti-Racism Subcommittee
Minute on the Doctrine of Discovery and Quaker Indian Boarding Schools
Minute by Winnebago Worship Group to Renounce the Doctrine of Discovery
May 23, 2021
The Autumn 2020 Interim Session of NYM renounces the Doctrine of Discovery.