Some quotes from the interview:
"The United States adopted this Doctrine of Discovery from Europe, from the English colonies and made this part of the law to control Native people, to control Tribal Nations.......to acquire all their land."
"The idea of Manifest Destiny came from this European religious, racial and ethnocentric idea that Europeans were superior to the rest of the world and had the right to control Native peoples, Indigenous peoples everywhere in the world and acquire their land and assets."
"By merely arriving and sticking that flag in the soil they were claiming their rights over the Native people, over the land, and over the rights of the Native people, the human rights, the political rights, the sovereign rights over tribal governments.
And that is exactly what they were engaged in doing. In 1436, Pope Eugenius the Second, granted the Canary Islands to Portugal to convert them, Christianize them and civilize them. And later, in the 1450's, as Portugal was exploring down the coast of Africa, Pope Nicholas the Fifth granted Portugal ownership, title, jurisdiction and sovereignty over these African people.
So since Spain wanted these same Papal Bulls here in the New World, they go to the new Pope, Alexander the Sixth, and he divides the world in half from the north to the south pole, granting Portugal all rights east of that line, and Spain all rights west of that line. Great for Spain and Portugal; not so good for people living in these lands."
"There is a group called the 13 Indigenous grandmothers and they have been to the Vatican, performing ceremonies right there on the grounds, right there while the Pope was doing some service and the guards just about arrested them."
"And I want to give credit to more people than just the Indigenous Grandmothers. Chief Oren Lyon of the Onondagas in upstate New York. He and others have been to the Vatican and met with some high ranking Bishop. They've never talked to the Pope, but this point has been made to the hierarchy of the Church. No response yet."
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