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OTTAWA — As Pope Francis travelled across Canada, so did a demand to revisit centuries-old declarations.
"The Pope and the Catholic Church are ground zero for the genocide that we've endured," said Eva Jewell, who is Deshkan Ziibiing Anishinaabekwe and a research director at the Yellowhead Institute. "It is just fundamental to understanding colonialism," said Matthew Wildcat, a professor at the University of Alberta and member of the Ermineskin Cree Nation.The commission detailed how the 15th-century doctrine was connected to thinking that lands being colonized were empty, when in fact Indigenous people called them home.
"It's this philosophy that emerges from conquest that Indigenous people should not be treated as having any rights or laws or humanity generally." "Our systems of sovereignty and our systems of governance have been minimized through documents such as … that we are not true sovereign entities."
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