Doctrine of Discovery Project

We are pleased to share a new publication by Robert J. Miller, The Declaration of Independence: “Merciless Indian Savages”…and More. The essay examines how conflicts over Indigenous lands, resources, and sovereignty shaped the Declaration of Independence and the...

In this episode of the Mapping the Doctrine of Discovery podcast, the conversation asks what changes when Earth is not treated as an object, resource, or backdrop, but as Mother. The episode connects Haudenosaunee ceremony, matrilineal governance, the Thanksgiving Address, the Freedom School, and environmental responsibility to a renewed relationship with the living world.

In this episode of the Mapping the Doctrine of Discovery podcast, Tom Porter discusses how colonization and the Revolutionary War reshaped Mohawk and Haudenosaunee leadership, identity, and survival. The conversation works through decolonization on the ground: restoring trust, practicing restraint, retrieving original instructions without shaming people, and making room for c...

We are pleased to share Destroying the Doctrine of Discovery, a new publication by Robert J. Miller. The paper examines how the Doctrine of Discovery became an...

On September 23, 2026, the Native American Rights Fund (NARF) filed an amicus curiae brief in the D.C. Circuit on behalf of the National Congress of American Indians and the Inter Tribal Association of Arizona, supporting the Tohono O’odham Nation’s effort to stop construction of a border wall section on its reservation. In this post from The Domination Chronicles, S...