INDIGENOUS PEOPLES: DENOMINATIONS REPENT FOR NATIVE AMERICAN LAND GRABS
EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER, of Religion News Service, reports on how several Protestant denominations, having repudiated the Doctrine of Discovery, the idea laid out in a series of 15th-century papal bulls that justified appropriating native land, are considering how to act on it…
In the US, Sioux tribe receives land from South Dakota Jesuits
RNS The Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation, highlighted in red, in south-central South Dakota. Five hundred acres will be returned to the Rosebud Sioux tribe in the general area. PICTURE: Google Maps A tribe of Sioux in the US is going back to the land – or rather, the land is going back to the tribe. The […]