Posts tagged Indigenous rights
Indigenous Catholics Continue To Work For Respect And Recognition
Indigenous Catholics Continue To Work For Respect And Recognition

(ANALYSIS) It has been more than 500 years since Vatican decrees gave European colonizers permission to carve up the “New World” – and just one since Pope Francis disavowed them. The repudiation can hardly undo centuries of oppressing Indigenous people and stealing their lands. Yet the statement is monumental in ways that signal cultural and political shifts within the Catholic Church.

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Analysis, Catholicism, Christianity, News, North America, Latin AmericaEben LeveyThe Conversation, Eben Levey, Pope Francis, Catholic Church, Indigenous people, Doctrine of Discovery, Colonization, Christianity, news, analysis, Indigenous People, Indigenous rights, Secondary feature Comment
Returning Indigenous Objects: If You Steal Something, Give It Back

(OPINION) For generations, Indigenous people have been asking for objects taken during colonization of their traditional homelands to be returned. Some of the objects are sacred, but also many items are human remains. The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples said human remains and funerary objects should be returned to the individual tribes.

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OpinionBecky TallentSpokane FaVs, Becky Tallent, Indigenous people, Indigenous items, Sacred objects, Pope Francis, First Nations, Indigenous rights, Native AmericansComment