Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery

Steven T. Newcomb

Fulcrum Publishing, 2008 - Law - 186 pages

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."

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The single best, straight forward, easy to understand resource to help see the LARGE picture on the History of Civilization since the 13th century, and more importantly, to understand WHAT "Civilization" is, that It is a strictly regulated Institutional franchise, and that it IS applied in International Courts (which include, and are adjudicated in, US Courts), which just so happens to be the perpetrator of the Occupation and Domination of "heathens" (the Indigenous Nations of the earth), and that War Crimes of Genocide have from the beginning been the goal of BOTH the Church (franchisor) and the State (franchisee).
I keep calling it "Antiquity" because of the fabrication of
'historically verifiable' Royal Lineages granted to Dynastic Aristocracy as the franchisee of a continual Papel "Indulgence" (a license to be permitted to DOMINATE the earth, and thus, by Papel Decree of pre-ordained Forgivness, to "Be Written into the Book of Life", via Papel authority, or 'Bull' (Charter/Treaty). Is the Permission to Sin and get away with it, even in the Next Life. All of this is verifiable, and it is discussed in detail in this book, lots of it online, free, via Google Books. Consider it a homework assignment.  

Contents

• A Primer on Cognitive Theory: 1
• Metaphorical Experience and Federal Indian Law: 13
• The Conqueror Model: 23
• Colonizing the Promised Land: 37
• The Chosen PeoplePromised Land Model: 51
• The Dominating Mentality of Christendom: 59
• Johnson v MIntosh: 73
• Converting Christian Discovery into Heathen Conquest: 89
• The Mental Process of Negation: 103
• Christian Nations Theory Hidden in Plain Sight: 115
• A Sacred Regard for All Living Things: 125
• Notes: 139
• References: 171
• Index: 181

About the author

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery
• Author: Steven T. Newcomb
• Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing, 2008
• ISBN: 1555916422, 9781555916428
• Length: 186 pages
• Subjects: Law / Indigenous Peoples