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25.1 - Spring - Challenging the Justifications of Domination through Law: Indigenous Resistance and the Undoing of Christian Empire

The following issue has resulted from a conference in the winter of 2023. The conference was sponsored by The Henry Luce Foundation, Syracuse University Departments of Religion and Biology, Indigenous Values Initiative, American Indian Law Alliance, American Indian Community House, Good Faith Media (GFM), Neighbors of Onondaga Nation (NOON), Syracuse Peace Council, Syracuse Cultural Workers, Tonatierra, Toward Our Common Public Life, Unitarian Universalist Association.

Federal Anti-indian Law: Why a Challenge to “Christian Discovery” Creates a Metaphysical Crisis for the US

By Peter d'Errico (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Right & Respectful Relations: A Memoir of the Road to the Historic Yakama Nation Amicus Brief Challenging ‘Christian Discovery’ in Washington State V. Cougar Den

By JoDe Goudy (Independent Scholar)

The Doctrine of Christian Discovery and Domination: How It Has Been Used by United States Courts to Deny Treaty Rights & Dismiss the Haudenosaunee Land Rights Cases

By Joseph J. Heath (General Counsel for Onondaga Nation.)

The International Law of Colonialism: The Doctrine of Discovery

By Robert J. Miller (Arizona State University)

My Decades-long Inquiry Into the Doctrine of Christian Discovery and Domination

By Steven T. Newcomb (Indigenous Law Institute)

An Intergenerational and Perpetual Imperium of Domination and Subjugation of Indigenous Peoples: The Doctrine of Christian Discovery and Royal Supremacy

By Phillip Rodgers-Falk (Macquarie University)

An Appeal to the American People—Overturning “Federal Indian Law”

By Steven J. Schwartzberg (DePaul University)

Conclusion: Dismantling the Doctrine of Christian Discovery Cultivating Right Relations

By Philip P Arnold (Syracuse University) ; Sandra Bigtree (Indigenous Values Initiative) ; Adam DJ Brett (American Indian Law Alliance, Syracuse University)

A Postscript: Sovereignty is Still the Issue

By Adam DJ Brett (American Indian Law Alliance, Syracuse University) ; Betty Hill (Lyons) (American Indian Law Alliance) ; Nethanial Belmont (University of Colorado Boulder)

24.2 - Winter - Challenging the Justifications of Domination Through Religion: “We Were Planting Corn and They Were Planting Crosses” Part 1 - Table of Contents

Author Bios

A Preface to Challenging the Justifications of Domination Through Religion: “We Were Planting Corn, and They Were Planting Crosses”

By Philip P Arnold (Syracuse University) ; Sandra Bigtree (Indigenous Values Initiative) ; Adam DJ Brett (American Indian Law Alliance, Syracuse University)

Introduction

By Philip P Arnold (Syracuse University) ; Sandra Bigtree (Indigenous Values Initiative) ; Adam DJ Brett (American Indian Law Alliance, Syracuse University)

Christian Control of Women and Mother Earth: The Doctrine of Discovery and the Doctrine of Male Domination

By Sally Roesch Wagner (Matlida Joslyn Gage Center & Syracuse University)

Charting the Doctrine in the Colonial Archive: Papal Bulls and the Translation of the ‘Discovery’ Purpose

By Sebastian Modrow (Syracuse University)

Using the Doctrine of Discovery to Increase Shared Language and Conceptual Frameworks Between Black and Indigenous Feminist Organizing

By Sarah Nahar (University of Michigan in the Program in the Environment, Syracuse University)

The Medieval Origins of Religious White Supremacy: English Imperialism, Crusade Defeats, and the Doctrine of Discovery

By Maeve Callan (Simpson College)

The Chosen People at Grouse Mountain

By Wendy Felese (Regis University, Montana State University Billings)

“Engineering Marvel”: Towards Resisting the Affective Politics of Erie Canal Heritage

By Danielle S. Nagle (independant scholar)

Deconstructing the Erie Canal: Three Lessons for its Next Century

By Renée Barry (Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation)

Silencing the Doctrine of Discovery – The Brazilian Process: Accidental Discoveries, Secret Manuscripts, Imaginary Lines and Myths

By Telma Alencar (independant scholar)

Baltic Religion: The Sacred Things

By Eglutė Trinkauskaitė (Maryland Institute College of Art) ; Ellen B. Cutler (independant scholar)

Other Forms of Dwelling: A Dalit – Feminist Perspective

By Shrutika Lakshmi (Syracuse University)

Hindu Political Theology: Beyond Hindutva’s Political Monotheism

By Pranay Somayajula (independant scholar)

Expecting Excellence in Education: When Content Conditions Class Consciousness

By Michael E. Chaness (Assistant Professor at State University of New York (SUNY) Oswego, State University of New York Oswego)

Flesh of Words: Confrontation, Navigation, and Integrity in the English Classroom

By Roberta Hurtado (State University of New York Oswego)

Schools, Teachers, and Teacher Educators: Education Through the Disruption of White Supremacy

By Ritu Radhakrishnan (State University of New York Oswego)

Dismantling White Supremacy in the Classroom and Beyond

By Celinet Duran Jimenez (State University of New York Oswego)

Unselling the Classroom: Confronting History and Ourselves

By Elaina Berlin (The University at Albany)

24.1 - summer - Special Issue on Religion and Bioethics - Table of Contents

The following issue has resulted from a conference in the fall of 2024. The conference was sponsored by the journal in collaboration with the University of Denver.