Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jun 13, 2023 2:21:08 GMT 12
MĀORI LEADERS CALL ON KING CHARLES, NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT TO REJECT DOCTRINE OF CHRISTIAN DISCOVERY
Some Māori leaders are calling on King Charles III and the New Zealand Government to formally reject a legal concept Pope Nicholas V first pushed through in 1452 as a justification for colonisation.
The Doctrine of Christian Discovery was issued 317 years before Captain James Cook set foot in Aotearoa New Zealand and 190 years before Abel Tasman and his crew became the first Europeans to lay eyes on it.
But Māori and other indigenous peoples around the globe said the document provided the original justification used by all European colonising forces in the centuries that followed - and it is still causing damage today.....
www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2023/06/maori-leaders-call-on-king-charles-new-zealand-government-to-reject-doctrine-of-christian-discovery.html
Some Māori leaders are calling on King Charles III and the New Zealand Government to formally reject a legal concept Pope Nicholas V first pushed through in 1452 as a justification for colonisation.
The Doctrine of Christian Discovery was issued 317 years before Captain James Cook set foot in Aotearoa New Zealand and 190 years before Abel Tasman and his crew became the first Europeans to lay eyes on it.
But Māori and other indigenous peoples around the globe said the document provided the original justification used by all European colonising forces in the centuries that followed - and it is still causing damage today.....
www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2023/06/maori-leaders-call-on-king-charles-new-zealand-government-to-reject-doctrine-of-christian-discovery.html