American Indians and tribal nations have been too long overlooked in the teaching and scholarship of the history of the United States. I have written about the crucial role that indigenous peoples and nations played, for example, in the Lewis and Clark expedition and in American Manifest Destiny.  Robert J. Miller, Native America, Discovered and Conquered: Thomas [...]

I have written and stated many times that American Indian tribes and Indigenous Peoples need to write their own histories because the mainstream academy and historians almost totally ignore the participation, involvement, and influence of Indigenous Peoples on world history and United States history. Thus, I am especially delighted to participate in the following conference being held Friday, May 3, 2013 to [...]

I'm visiting Australia again and giving talks in Brisbane, Adelaide, and Tasmania at various universities and other locations about the Doctrine of Discovery in Australia and gave one talk about Indigenous economic development.  I just left the Museum of Western Australia in Perth and am struck once again by how sad Australia's treatment of Aboriginal peoples was and the [...]

A conference entitled the International Seminar on the Doctrine of Discovery is being cohosted by the Shuswap Nation Tribal Council and Thompson Rivers University on September 20th and 21st in Kamlopps British Columbia. The conference will address how the colonial doctrine of discovery continues to form the foundation of North American legal systems and how this concept has [...]

August 9 is the international indigenous peoples' Day. Please check out our blog entry on the Oxford University Press website: http://blog.oup.com/2012/08/doctrine-discovery-indigenous-peoples/

I just received this e-mail that the New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), in meeting at Silver Bay, NY, passed the minute (resolution) below on 7-26-2012.   We seek to live in a just peace with our fellow human beings, both as individuals, and as peoples. The United States has formally declared [...]

The Episcopal Church adopted a resolution in 2009 repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery.  At it's next tri-ennial conference, in July 2012, it is now considering, and might already have adopted, a resolution that all church dioceses should study the impact of the Doctrine on persons of color, and questions about racial discrimination, racial profiling, and other acts of [...]

I am hoping to write about how the Scandinavian countries used the international law Doctrine of Discovery to negatively impact the rights of the Sami Peoples.  My initial research shows evidence of the Doctrine of Discovery being applied against the Sami. Scandinavian countries also applied the elements of Discovery against the Sami peoples to attempt [...]

I am currently researching and planning to write about how European countries applied the international law of colonialism, the Doctrine of Discovery, to divide up Africa. My initial research shows European countries did apply the Doctrine. In 1885, thirteen European countries signed a treaty in which they agreed to partition enormous areas of Africa based on [...]

The 15th century international law Doctrine of Discovery in the modern world, by Robert J. Miller   The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues is holding its 11th annual meeting in New York May 7-18. More than 1,500 Indigenous Peoples will attend the meeting to address critical issues facing Indigenous Nations today. The main [...]