{"id":3251,"date":"2022-08-09T09:33:10","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T13:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/digital\/?page_id=3251"},"modified":"2022-08-09T09:33:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T13:33:10","slug":"doctrine-of-discovery","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/digital\/?page_id=3251","title":{"rendered":"Doctrine of Discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. The Doctrine of Discovery allowed the Crown to claim sovereignty over Indigenous Peoples and land by holding that Indigenous Peoples cannot claim ownership of land. It does concede a restricted title (an \u2018Aboriginal title\u2019) to rights of occupation and land use;\u00a0and,<\/li>\n
  2. The legal doctrine of Terra Nullius, land that is legally deemed to be unoccupied or uninhabited,\u00a0allowed for the Crown to grant land to its colonial interests, including 70-80% of Canada\u2019s land mass to the Hudson Bay Company.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The Doctrine of Discovery finds its root in the 1455 papal bull\u00a0Romanus Pontifex\u00a0of the Roman Catholic Church.\u00a0Pope Nicholas V authorized the conquest and enslavement of non-Christian Indigenous Peoples for the purposes of land acquisition and profit from natural resources.<\/p>\n

    Terra Nullius\u00a0finds its legal root in eighteenth century European law, but the concept was used to justify the right to colonize Indigenous lands throughout the sixteenth to twentieth centuries. \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013Source:\u00a0 C<\/strong>hristian\u00a0A<\/strong>boriginal\u00a0I<\/strong>nfrastructure\u00a0D<\/strong>evelopments<\/a><\/p>\n

    The Anglican Church of Canada <\/strong>put together this hour long video explaining just what \u00a0papal letter <\/strong>centuries ago by Pope Nicholas V had \u00a0and continues to have on Indigenous rights, or rather lack of.\u00a0 How a man and a religion just by saying so, took over a land and deemed its inhabitants savages simply because they were not Catholic or the right colour.<\/p>\n

    Our laws that still right now amount to \u201clegal fiction\u201d\u2013 that is with no basis at all in actual law.<\/strong><\/p>\n