TIL that "Doctrine of Discovery", which holds that European Christian colonizers inherently held sovereignty to lands they "discovered" irrespective of those already there, is still to this day used by the U.S. Supreme Court to justify not returning lands, such as holy sites, to indigenous peoples.

TIL that "Doctrine of Discovery", which holds that European Christian colonizers inherently held sovereignty to lands they "discovered" irrespective of those already there, is still to this day used by the U.S. Supreme Court to justify not returning lands, such as holy sites, to indigenous peoples. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_doctrine TUSF January 30, 2020 at 02:47PM