Indigenous Americas

Indigenous Americas

The Doctrine of Discovery: The Theological–Legal Framework of Dispossession

On how papal bulls and royal charters created a legal theology of Christian supremacy that made Indigenous dispossession lawful, and why this doctrine remains embedded in American property law today

Indigenous Americas

Dunbar–Ortiz: An Indigenous Peoples’ History and Settler Colonialism as Ongoing Structure

On how settler colonialism constitutes the United States as an ongoing structure of elimination rather than a historical event, and what Dunbar–Ortiz reveals about the land question America cannot resolve

Indigenous Americas

Vine Deloria Jr.: God Is Red and the Indigenous Critique of Western Civilization

On how Western religions are fundamentally historical while Indigenous religions are spatial, and why Deloria's critique of Western civilization's temporal obsession remains philosophically unmatched

Indigenous Americas

Kimmerer: Braiding Sweetgrass and the Grammar of Animacy

On how language shapes what we perceive as alive, why the Potawatomi grammar of animacy offers an alternative to Western domination, and what reciprocity with the natural world requires

Indigenous Americas

Ceremony, Vision, and the Sacred: The Spiritual Technologies of Indigenous America

On the sacred technologies of Indigenous North America—vision quests and sweat lodges as sophisticated practices for encountering the sacred—and the ethical and spiritual difference between learning from living traditions and appropriating them

Indigenous Americas

Standing Rock and the Living Tradition: Resistance, Decolonization, and the Interior Work

On Standing Rock as ceremony and the latest chapter in 500 years of Lakota resistance, and what decolonization demands of both political action and interior transformation