☩ SOTERIAN GLOSSARY ☩

Living Language Lexicon of the Soteria Covenant

Doctrine of Discovery

The legal principle by which European nations claimed the right to 'discover' and claim lands inhabited by non-Christian peoples — used to justify the dispossession of indigenous peoples.

Category: Indigenous Law · Source: Johnson v. M'Intosh, 21 U.S. 543 (1823)
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