United States: Christianity, American Indians, And The Doctrine Of Discovery


United States: Christianity, American Indians, And The Doctrine Of Discovery Robert J. Miller, 2010   REMEMBERING JAMESTOWN: HARD QUESTIONS ABOUT CHRISTIAN MISSION, Amos Yong, Barbara Brown Zikmund, eds., Pickwick Publications, 2010   The European countries that explored and colonized North America utilized the international law Doctrine of Discovery to claim the sovereign, property, and human rights of Indigenous peoples. Discovery was developed primarily in the fifteenth century by Spain,...

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