Tom Porter discusses how colonization and the Revolutionary War reshaped Mohawk and Haudenosaunee leadership, identity, and survival, including the complicated legacy of Joseph Brant. The conversation works through decolonization on the ground: restoring trust, practicing restraint, retrieving original instructions without shaming people, and making room for condolence and real apologies.
This episode explores how Haudenosaunee ceremonies survived generations of fear, shame, and punishment, and why sharing these teachings openly matters now. The conversation connects creation stories, matrilineal leadership, the Thanksgiving Address, and the Freedom School to a clear environmental call: renew a living relationship with Mother Earth before we lose what keeps future generations alive.
Jordan Loewen-Colón traces a genealogy from Roman res nullius and the Doctrine of Discovery to today’s data economy, where platforms treat attention, behavior, and community knowledge as resources waiting to be claimed. The episode names this logic Data Nullius: a digital version of colonial erasure that converts relationships into metadata, consent into contracts, and lived experience into profit. Moving through statistics, surveillance, PageRank, GDPR, and Indigenous data sovereignty, the conversation asks what changes when data is understood not as ownerless property but as relational responsibility. OCAP principles, genomic privacy, and AI ethics point toward community control, refusal, and accountability. Rather than accepting terms of service as neutral or inevitable, the episode invites listeners to see extraction as a historical pattern and to imagine digital systems governed by consent, reciprocity, and care. It challenges scholars, technologists, and communities to replace possession with stewardship in the infrastructures shaping public life together today.
We trace how the Doctrine of Discovery moved from papal bulls to U.S. property law while centering Haudenosaunee sovereignty, Indigenous resurgence, and Charles H. Long’s call to reimagine the human. A womanist lens confronts lynching, signification, and the sacred myths that normalize domination.
In this episode Davíd Carrasco and Raymond Carr honor the legacy of Charles H. Long, a towering figure in religious studies. Carrasco recalls Long’s innovative method of starting with texts, myths, or stories to explore culture and meaning, and he highlights Long’s insistence on creation myths as the foundation for human creativity and reality. The conversation delves into Long’s critique of America’s racist history and his concept of ‘colonizer watchers’—those oppressed by colonialism who might forge a new world. Carrasco reflects on Long’s influence in Mexico and his standing as an improvisational thinker whose work resists neat categorization. Raymond Carr offers insight into managing Long’s papers, noting how the scholar refused to be confined by disciplinary boundaries. Together the guests paint a vivid picture of Long’s role as a teacher and the enduring relevance of his ideas. Listeners reflect on how Long’s vision might inform today’s struggle and scholarship.
Matthew Boedy, a professor at the University of North Georgia, discussed his book 'The Seven Mountains Mandate' on Turning Point USA (TPUSA) and its influence on Christian nationalism. TPUSA, founded by Charlie Kirk, has expanded from a college student group to a nationwide movement, with a budget of $100 million. The organization targets seven cultural institutions: education, government, religion, family, business, media, and entertainment, aiming to replace secular influences with Christian ones. Boedy highlighted TPUSA's impact on higher education, its use of rhetoric, and its significant financial backing. The conversation also touched on the historical context of Christian nationalism and its implications for democracy.
We, the Haudenosaunee, do not celebrate the Erie Canal despite all efforts to remove us and dispossess us. We remain. We are still here.
In seventh grade social studies, we had learned about the original inhabitants, the Haudenosaunee or the people of the Longhouse. But the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cougas, Senecas, and Tuscarora had disappeared from our history books after the American Revolution.
And then I started to realize, as I kept going, that the American Revolution really wasn't about freedom. The American Revolution was about all that land on the frontier.
We trace how dominionist readings of Genesis 1:28 fueled the Doctrine of Discovery witch burnings and modern domination systems then pull forward correctives from multiple wells Haudenosaunee wisdom.
we can't do the work of justice without recognizing that Fordham University is a predominantly white institution It's been white serving for most of its history it bears that stamp of white interests
This podcast episode explores the Doctrine of Christian Discovery and its impacts on indigenous peoples particularly the Haudenosaunee Iroquois Confederacy It features perspectives from Onondaga Natio
Part 2 of our interview with Oren Lyons
Our guest is Onondaga Nation Turtle Clan Faithkeeper Oren Lyons
Our guest is Rev Dr Brian Konkol Dean of Hendricks Chapel and Dean of Hendricks Chapel and Professor of Practice at Syracuse University
Betty Lyons Onondaga Nation Snipe Clan is Executive Director of the American Indian Law Alliance She is an Indigenous and environmental activist and citizen of the Onondaga Nation
Our guest is Tina Ngata M ori Nation She is a Ng ti Porou mother of two from the East Coast of Te Ika a Maui Her work involves advocacy for environmental Indigenous and human rights She is internation
Our guest Peter d'Errico is Professor Emeritus of Legal Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Most recently he is the author of Federal Anti Indian Law The Legal Entrapment of Indigenous
Our guest Robert J Miller he is Professor of Law at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University where is also the Willard H Pedrick Distinguished Research Scholar and Director o
Our guest Lindsay Robertson is the Chickasaw Nation Endowed Chair in Native American Law Faculty Director Center for the Study of American Indian Law and Policy and the Sam K Viersen Family Foundation
Philip Arnold and Sandy Bigtree sit down with Dr Holly Rine of Le Moyne College for a powerful conversation about teaching the Doctrine of Discovery in Jesuit institutions
Dr Yuria Celidwen discusses the importance of Indigenous wisdom for planetary healing
In this special lecture episode host Philip P Arnold explores the urgent need for a value change for survival
This episode emphasizes the complexities surrounding Indigenous rights law and spirituality centering on Michael McNally's insights from his book Defend the Sacred It discusses the limitations of curr
Welcome to the Mapping the Doctrine of Discovery podcast hosted by Philip P Arnold and Sandy Bigtree In this compelling episode we are honored to welcome Steven J Schwartzberg as our special guest Sch
Our hosts Philip P Arnold and Sandy Bigtree speak with Soulforce
Discover the transformative power of Native American thought and religious studies in our conversation with the esteemed Philip Deloria
Dive into the history of religious freedom in the U S with Winifred Sullivan Explore the intersection of faith law and indigenous influences shaping American democracy
The podcast explores how a centuries old Christian doctrine encouraged conquest and colonization of non Christians and how its legacies still affect various lands and peoples
The podcast explores how a centuries old Christian doctrine encouraged conquest and colonization of non Christians and how its legacies still affect various lands and peoples
The podcast explores how a centuries old Christian doctrine encouraged conquest and colonization of non Christians and how its legacies still affect various lands and peoples
The podcast explores how a centuries old Christian doctrine encouraged conquest and colonization of non Christians and how its legacies still affect various lands and peoples
The podcast explores how a centuries old Christian doctrine encouraged conquest and colonization of non Christians and how its legacies still affect various lands and peoples
The podcast explores how a centuries old Christian doctrine encouraged conquest and colonization of non Christians and how its legacies still affect various lands and peoples
The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy And the Path to a Shared American Future
The episode explores how a centuries old Christian doctrine encouraged conquest and colonization of non Christians and how its legacies still affect various lands and peoples
The Doctrine of Discovery in the context of Abya Yala with Tupac Enrique Acosta
Haudenosaunee Influence on the Women’s Rights Movement
The Doctrine of Discovery in the Mesoamerican Context
The Doctrine Of Christian Discovery As An Ideological And Legal Framework
The Legal Framework of the Doctrine of Christian Discovery in Practice
Introducing Mapping the Doctrine of Discovery Podcast
In this podcast episode Phil Arnold and Sandy Bigtree interview Victor Valle an author and professor about his book The Poetics of Fire Metaphors of Chile Eating in the Borderlands
In this podcast episode hosts Phil Arnold and Sandy Bigtree interview Dr Dana Lloyd author of the new book Land is Kin Sovereignty Religious Freedom and Indigenous Sacred Sites
Join us for an intriguing dive into Lithuania's rich post Soviet culture and ancient Baltic religious traditions with guest Eglut Trinkauskait who is full time faculty in the department of Humanistic
In this episode of the Mapping the Doctrine of Discovery Podcast hosts Phil Arnold and Sandy Bigtree interview Eve Reyes Aguirre an Indigenous community organizer and advocate for human rights women's
In this episode of the Mapping the Doctrine of Discovery podcast hosts Phil Arnold and Sandy Bigtree interview Professor Anthea Butler the Geraldine R Segal Professor in American Social Thought and Ch
In this episode of the Mapping the Doctrine of Discovery podcast hosts Phil Arnold and Sandy Bigtree interview Robert P Jones the President and Founder of Public Religion Research Institute PRRI
In this episode Jo o Chaves explains how missionaries from the US particularly Southern Baptists played a role in the colonization and dispossession of native land in Brazil
In this episode hosts Philip P Arnold and Sandy Bigtree interview S Lily Mendoza and Jim Perkinson both faculty members in Michigan They discuss topics such as decolonization indigeneity white suprema
In this podcast episode Phil Arnold and Sandy Bigtree interview Tink Tinker Professor Emeritus at Iliff School of Theology American Indian Liberation A Theology of Sovereignty 2008 Spirit and Resistan
In this episode of the Mapping The Doctrine Of Discovery Podcast hosts Phil Arnold and Sandy Bigtree interview Patrick Gonzalez Rogers a faculty member at the Yale School of Environment
In this podcast episode hosts Phil Arnold and Sandy Bigtree interview Joel Harrison an associate professor of religion at Northern Virginia Community College and two of his students
In this confernece recording Paula Johnson Peter d'Errico Joseph J Heath and Steven T Newcomb discusson the legacy and impact of Johnson v M'Intosh
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