Arnold, Philip P, and Sandra Bigtree. 2022. "S1E02 - The Doctrine Of Christian Discovery As An Ideological And Legal Framework with Steven T. Newcomb." Mapping the Doctrine of Discovery Podcast, June 12. https://podcast.doctrineofdiscovery.org/season1/episode-02/.
Arnold, Philip P, and Sandra L Bigtree. 2023. "S01E02: The Doctrine Of Christian Discovery As An Ideological And Legal Framework with Steven T. Newcomb." Podcast. Mapping the Doctrine of Discovery.
Newcomb, Steven. 2018. "Face to Face with Pope Francis to Get the Inter Caetera Papal Bull Revoked." ORIGINAL FREE NATIONS, February 1. https://originalfreenations.com/face-to-face-with-pope-francis-to-get-the-inter-caetera-papal-bull-revoked/.
Newcomb, Steven. 2024. "The Challenges of Revoking the Papal Bulls: A View-from-the-Shore Analysis of Recent Statements by Christian Churches." CrossCurrents 74 (4): 431--57.
Newcomb, Steven T. 1992a. "500 Years of Injustice: The Legacy of Fifteenth Century Religious Prejudice." Ratical Earth Journal. https://journal.ratical.earth/2021/12/19/500-years-of-injustice-the-legacy-of-fifteenth-century-religious-prejudice/.
Newcomb, Steven T. 1992b. "The Evidence of Christian Nationalism in Federal Indian Law: The Doctrine of Discovery, Johnson v. McIntosh, and Plenary Power." NYU Rev. L. & Soc. Change 20 (2): 303--41.
Newcomb, Steven T. 1995. "Perspectives: Healing, Restoration, and Rematriation." News & Notes. https://indigenouslawinstitute.com/perspect.html.
Newcomb, Steven T. 2005. "On the Rightful Political Heritage of Native Nations." Indigenous Peoples' JL Culture & Resistance 2: 1.
Newcomb, Steven T. 2008. Pagans In The Promised Land: Decoding The Doctrine Of Christian Discovery. Fulcrum Publishing.
Newcomb, Steven T. 2011a. "Indian Boarding Schools in Context." Indian Country Today.
Newcomb, Steven T. 2011b. "The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the Paradigm of Domination." Griffith La w Review 20 (3): 579--607.
Newcomb, Steven T. 2013. "Steven Newcomb Intervention at the U.N. High Level Plenary Meeting World Conference on Indigenous Peoples." Ratical. https://ratical.org/many_worlds/StevenNewcomb/Intervention-UNPFII-WCIP-2013.html.
Newcomb, Steven T. 2014a. "Crooked Paths to Allotment: The Fight over Federal Indian Policy after the Civil War. By C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa." American Indian Culture and Research Journal 38 (2).
Newcomb, Steven T. 2014b. "Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native America in National And." AMERICAN INDIAN CULTURE AND RESEARCH JOURNAL 38 (2): 152.
Newcomb, Steven T. 2016. "Original Nations of 'Great Turtle Island' and the Genesis of the United States." In The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Politics in the U.S. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118528631.ch1.
Newcomb, Steven T. 2016. "Steven Newcomb: Time for Pope Francis to Revoke the Papal Bulls." Indianz. https://indianz.com/News/2016/09/05/steven-newcomb-time-for-pope-francis-to.asp.
Newcomb, Steven T, dir. 2022. Pagans In The Promised Land - Rights of Mother Earth International Indigenous Conference. Oysee. Video. https://odysee.com/@ratical.org:4/PagansInThePromisedLand-RightsOfMotherEarth-IPC-040512:0.
Newcomb, Steven T. 2022. "The Human Mind and the Claim of a Right of Domination in U.S. Federal Indian Law." In The Doctrine of Discovery, edited by Betty Gaeñ hia uh Lyons. American Indian Law Alliance. https://aila.ngo/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Doctrine-of-Discovery-Booklet-rev3.1.pdf.
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Randall, Mitch, and Tanner Randall. n.d. Steven Newcomb & JoDe Goudy: U.S. Law. Episode 05. With guest Steven T. Newcomb and JoDe Goudy. Doctrine of Christian Discovery. MP3, 43:00. Accessed August 15, 2024. https://megaphone.link/AOOOI7101202412.
Straight, Birgil Kills, and Steven T Newcomb. 2024. "Indigenous Law Institute: A Movement Toward Restoration and Healing." Native Web. https://indigenouslawinstitute.com/.
Swim, Where Red Fish Still, Ko Rangi, Steven T Newcomb, et al. n.d. Law, Culture & Resistance.
Wolfchild, Sheldon P., dir. 2015. The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code. Documentary. Produced by Steven T. Newcomb and Sheldon P. Wolfchild. 38 Plus 2 Productions. Streaming, 01:02:04. https://vimeo.com/ondemand/dominationcode.
]]>I am sharing my article, “My Decades-long Inquiry Into the Doctrine of Christian Discovery and Domination,” published in The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, volume 25, issue 1.
The article looks back over many years of research into the Doctrine of Christian Discovery and Domination. I discuss how my inquiry developed, why the language of domination matters, and how religious and legal ideas were used to justify claims of authority over Native nations and our lands.
The article also traces the relationship between the 1493 papal bull Inter Caetera, Johnson v. M’Intosh in 1823, and the vocabulary that still shapes federal Indian law. Words such as “dominion,” “conquest,” “civilization,” “ascendancy,” and “sovereignty” are not neutral. They carry a worldview. They help create the appearance that domination is lawful, natural, or inevitable.
I also connect this research to family history, Native language loss, boarding schools, and the continuing need to recover cultural, spiritual, and intellectual traditions rooted in life rather than domination.
For readers following my work, this article is a concentrated statement of the inquiry that runs through my writing, speaking, and podcast conversations: how to identify the colonial mindset embedded in law and language, and how to move toward the original free existence of Native nations and peoples.
]]>For many years I have worked to identify the patterns of domination that have been built into the legal and political language used against Original Nations and Peoples. Episode 22 of Domination Chronicles offers a concise way into that inquiry because it asks a basic question: where are we now, after decades of examining the language of “discovery,” “dominion,” “conquest,” “sovereignty,” and “rights”?
The episode is not a summary of a finished subject. It is an invitation into the discipline of looking more carefully. When people repeat the phrase “Doctrine of Discovery,” the words can begin to sound like a settled label. Peter d’Errico and I discuss why that is not enough. The deeper issue is a claimed right of domination, and that claim has to be investigated in the legal texts, religious documents, political assumptions, and everyday phrases that continue to shape public understanding.
This conversation is also a useful companion to my ongoing work on domination language. The point is not simply to replace one slogan with another. The point is to hear what institutional language is doing: how it turns free nations into “tribes,” how it turns original free existence into “limited sovereignty,” and how it presents imposed authority as if it were natural or lawful.
Listeners who want more background can pair this episode with Episode 8 on words and meanings and Episode 21 on “tribal sovereignty”. Those conversations show why careful translation is necessary when legal language carries an assumed power to define reality for other peoples.
Episode 22 is a strong place to begin with Domination Chronicles because it explains the method: sustained conversation, close attention to words, and a refusal to let domination hide behind familiar terms.
]]>Steve and Peter unpack tribal sovereignty, federal anti-Indian law, Cohen's Handbook, and the domination framework hidden in plain sight.
Peter and I examine why "tribal sovereignty" can become a trap when it is defined by federal anti-Indian law. The episode asks listeners to hear the contradiction inside "limited sovereignty" and to ask who benefits from that language.
I am sharing this episode here because it belongs with my wider work on the language of domination, Christian discovery, federal Indian law, and the continuing reality of Original Nations' free existence. Each conversation in Domination Chronicles is another way into that inquiry.
]]>The hosts examine the federal Indian law trust doctrine as a euphemism for a relationship of domination rather than protection.
In this conversation, Peter and I examine why the word trust should not be accepted at face value. The episode asks how fear is produced by domination and what fearlessness requires when legal language disguises control as care.
I am sharing this episode here because it belongs with my wider work on the language of domination, Christian discovery, federal Indian law, and the continuing reality of Original Nations' free existence. Each conversation in Domination Chronicles is another way into that inquiry.
]]>Loretta Afraid of Bear-Cook joins the hosts to discuss Oglala Lakota traditions, Indigenous language, community, and resistance to domination.
With Loretta Afraid of Bear-Cook, Peter and I listen to a conversation rooted in Oglala Lakota community. The episode moves beyond legal abstraction into language, tradition, and the lived work of maintaining relation.
I am sharing this episode here because it belongs with my wider work on the language of domination, Christian discovery, federal Indian law, and the continuing reality of Original Nations' free existence. Each conversation in Domination Chronicles is another way into that inquiry.
]]>Attorney Mark Savage joins the show for a conversation on plenary power, natural rights, treaties, and original free existence.
This episode returns to questions of rights, treaties, and legal strategy with attorney Mark Savage. The central issue is whether federal Indian law can be challenged from the reality of original free existence rather than from the system's own assumptions.
I am sharing this episode here because it belongs with my wider work on the language of domination, Christian discovery, federal Indian law, and the continuing reality of Original Nations' free existence. Each conversation in Domination Chronicles is another way into that inquiry.
]]>For years, I have studied the conceptual and legal frameworks used to justify the subordination of our Original Nations. Again and again, I found that institutions use polished, respectable wording to conceal systems of control. Words that sound neutral or even benevolent are often carrying assumptions of superiority, entitlement, and unilateral power.
That is why I call this a “translator” series. I am translating the public language of power into plain terms so people can see what is really being said.
When governments, courts, and churches speak in abstract legal phrases, most people are not taught how to hear the underlying code. My goal is to decode that system. I want readers to recognize how old patterns of Christian domination are still being normalized through modern legal and political vocabulary.
This series is not about rhetoric for its own sake. It is about liberation through clarity. Once we identify domination language, we are better able to challenge it, reject it, and replace it with frameworks grounded in mutual respect, free existence, and genuine nation-to-nation relationships.
I offer this series as part of a longer movement of intellectual and spiritual decolonization. We cannot dismantle systems we cannot name. The Domination Translator Series is my contribution to helping us name them directly.
If you have not read the opening piece, start here:
]]>Bruce McIvor joins the hosts to discuss how Canada's legal system is used as a tool of ongoing colonization and domination.
With Bruce McIvor, Peter and I discuss how reconciliation language can legitimize ongoing colonization. The conversation makes clear that domination often operates through law, not outside it.
I am sharing this episode here because it belongs with my wider work on the language of domination, Christian discovery, federal Indian law, and the continuing reality of Original Nations' free existence. Each conversation in Domination Chronicles is another way into that inquiry.
]]>Peter d'Errico and Steven Newcomb critique an Economist article about the Indian Removal Act and the language used for invasion and settlement.
The words used to describe people entering another people's homeland matter. In this episode, Peter and I critique the language around the Indian Removal Act and the habits that make invasion sound ordinary.
I am sharing this episode here because it belongs with my wider work on the language of domination, Christian discovery, federal Indian law, and the continuing reality of Original Nations' free existence. Each conversation in Domination Chronicles is another way into that inquiry.
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