Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery
by Steven T. NewcombEstimated delivery 3-12 business days
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Description An analysis of how religious bias shaped U.S. federal Indian law.
Pagans in the Promised Land makes a unique challenge to U.S. federal Indian law and policy, attacking the presumption that American Indian nations are legitimately subject to the plenary power of the United States. Steve Newcomb puts forth a startling theory that U.S. federal Indian law and policy are premised on Old Testament narratives of the chosen people and the promised land, as exemplified in the 1823 Supreme Court ruling Johnson v. McIntosh, that the first "Christian people" to "discover" lands inhabited by "natives, who were heathens," have an ultimate title to and dominion over these lands and peoples. This important addition to legal scholarship asserts there is no separation of church and state in the United States, so long as U.S. federal Indian law and policy are premised on the ancient religious distinctions between "Christians" and "heathens."
Steven T. Newcomb (Shawnee/Lenape) is the indigenous law research coordinator at the Sycuan education department of the Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation in San Diego County, California. He is cofounder and codirector of the Indigenous Law Institute, a fellow with the American Indian Policy and Media Initiative at Buffalo State College in New York.
- ISBN 1555916422
- ISBN-13 9781555916428
- Title Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery
- Author Steven T. Newcomb
- Format Paperback
- Year 2008
- Pages 186
- Publisher Fulcrum Group
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