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2006-08-09 | Last
week, a delegation of indigenous nations and non-governmental
organisations gathered at the Summit of Indigenous Nations at Bear
Butte Mountain, South Dakota, in the United States. Here follows
their Press Advisory plus some related articles.
~ Summit of
Indigenous Nations Sign Resolution to Rescind the Doctrine of
Discovery (Papal Bulls of 1493) ~
When: August 3, 2006
Who: A delegation
of indigenous nations and non-governmental organizations gathered at
the Summit of Indigenous Nations at Bear Butte Mountain.
Where: Bear Butte
Mountain, South Dakota
What:
Today (August 3,
2006) is the third day of the Summit of Indigenous Nations, a
gathering of more than forty delegations of indigenous, spiritual and
political leaders, as well as NGO’s who have gathered in the
Black Hills Mountains of South Dakota. Today these delegations signed
the “Resolution of the Summit of Indigenous Nations Calling for
a Rescission of the Conceptual Doctrine of Discovery and Related
Documents, Specifically the Inter Caetera Bull (Papal Bulls) of 1493
and the 1496 Royal Charter of the Church of England.” This Papal
Bulls have been the basis for the extinguishment of aboriginal title
and the subjugations of indigenous peoples of Abya Yala (North and
South America). The papal bulls evolved in the United States through
the Supreme Court decision of Johnson v. McIntosh (1821) and contains
the legal basis for the denial of aboriginal title to Indian lands in
the United States.
The Indigenous
Nations have resolved, here at the base of Mato Paha (Bear Butte),
that the Pope of the Catholic Church and the Queen of England and the
Archbishop of Canterbury rescind these doctrines of discovery as they
have justified and paved the legal way for the dispossession of
aboriginal land title and the subjugation of non-Christian people to
the present. It has been resolved by 23 Nations and NGO’s and
100 individual signatories that the “doctrine of discovery is a
legal and political fiction in violation of the rights of Indigenous
People’s which has resulted in and continues to oppress
indigenous people’s in the Western Hemisphere.
Signatories
included a cross-section of indigenous and non-indigenous
organizations and nations including American Indian Law Alliance,
American Indian Movement, Black Hills Sioux Nation Treaty Council by
Chief Oliver Red Cloud and Oglala Delegate Floyd Hand, the
Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador and Bring Back
the Way: Owe Aku and Tonatierra.
This Summit of
Indigenous Nations has been called in response to the development of
several new biker venues all located within five miles of the base of
Bear Butte, near the Black Hills Mountains. Bear Butte is a sacred
place of worship for over thirty Native American Nations across the
Great Plains. The Native American nations involved are asking for a
simple five acre buffer zone from the base of the mountain; however
this is currently not being honored.
Contact:
Gabrielle Roesch
& Brian Cisneros
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