A 2005 Talk by Steven Newcomb During the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
A Retrospective
This is an edited version of a talk I gave during an event on the Doctrine of Discovery and the Vatican papal bulls. The event was sponsored by the American Indian Law Alliance and the Seventh Generation Fund during the 2005 UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.
Great talk. I am just now learning about the Vatican, the Jesuits, the one world government and one world religion. I have Dutch and English ancestry, and both those lands were overrun by the Roman Empire and attempted to be enslaved by the Vatican. This quest for dominion of the world has been going on for 2000 years. I think a lot of people woke up, trying to worldwide lockdowns of 2020 and the fake pandemic. Ironically, this talk was given at the UN, which is part of the one world government. The people of the world are engaged in an old old conflict between life and slavery. Life wins, but the slave masters, and their agents need to be dealt with effectively.
My first, somewhat thoughtless response to this talk (whilst brimming with indignation) was "We are all Indians". However, spontaneity isn't always a virtue. It can hide or memoryhole the fact that I wasn't raised in an indigenous community, to mention just one thing. I was in fact raised in a Protestant (or Calvinist milieu, with a father who was a (critical, well-read) minister within one of its denominations (and nearly got expelled for his heretical views). My mother survived a Japanese internment camp on the isle of Java, now part of Indonesia and formerly part of the colonial empire of the 'Seven United Netherlands Provinces'. All of this made more sense to me over the last decade.
For better or worse, my parents are no longer elderly people. They are now my most immediate or intimate forebears. By acknowledging & honoring this, I must come to terms with the culture that spawned me, even if it can no longer be my natural go-to when pondering the domination system, both at macro (AND micro) levels. Which is an assessment, not a complaint.
I thank you, Steven Newcomb, for being such an enlightening presence on substack and elsewhere.