Pagans in the Promised Land
Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery
1st Edition
Published on 29. January 2008
217 pages
978-1-55591-894-1 (ISBN)
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Pagans in the Promised Land provides a unique, well-researched challenge to U.S. federal Indian law and policy. It attacks 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 imporant 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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Content
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Half Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: A Primer on Cognitive Theory
- Chapter 2: Metaphorical Experience and Federal Indian Law
- Chapter 3: The Conqueror Model
- Chapter 4: Colonizing the Promised Land
- Chapter 5: The Chosen People-Promised Land Model
- Chapter 6: The Dominating Mentality of Christendom
- Chapter 7: Johnson v. M'Intosh
- Chapter 8: Converting Christian Discovery into Heathen Conquest
- Chapter 9: The Mental Process of Negation
- Chapter 10: Christian Nations Theory: Hidden in Plain Sight
- Conclusion: A Sacred Regard for All Living Things
- Notes
- References
- Index
