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Doctrine of Discovery Film and Conversation with Jim Bear Jacobs

  • St. Luke Presbyterian Church 3121 Groveland School Road Minnetonka (map)

Local Native faith leader Jim Bear Jacobs joins St. Luke as we view and discuss Sheldon Wolfchild's documentary on the Doctrine of Discovery.

Dakota filmmaker Sheldon Wolfchild's compelling documentary is premised on Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery, a book based on two decades of research by Shawnee, Lenape scholar Steven T. Newcomb. The film tells the story of how little known Vatican documents of the fifteenth century resulted in a tragic global momentum of domination and dehumanization. This led to law systems in the United States and Canada and elsewhere in the world, that are still being used against Original Nations and Peoples to this day.