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Aired Tuesday, 14 August 2018, 5:00 PM ESTRevealing and Revoking the Doctrine of “Discovery” – From Domination to ReverenceAn Interview with Native American Scholar and Activist Steven Newcomb and Activist Visionary Shawna Bluestar“If Columbus ‘discovered’ America then Willie Sutton was the greatest ‘discoverer’ of banks in history.” — Swami BeyondanandaThe Doctrine of Discovery… it sounds so official, so scholarly.And yet, it has been the blueprint for not just colonization of the Americas, but for the exploitation, domination and genocide of its peoples. Did you know … that the Inter Caetera papal bull issued by Pope Alexander VI May 4, 1493 called for non-Christian nations to be reduced and subjugated (“barbare nationes deprimantur”)?Not only did this innocuous-sounding “doctrine of discovery” justify and fuel the destruction of the Native cultures in the Americas and the pillaging of its resources, but the abrogation of treaties with the Native American peoples has been justified by our U.S. Supreme Court