Whereas the Papal Bull “Inter Caetera,” issued by Pope Alexander VI on May 4, 1493, perpetuated the Doctrine of Discovery, which laid the groundwork for the exploitation and colonization of Ab Original lands by European powers.
Whereas, the Trail of Tears, spanning from 1831 to 1850, forcibly displaced over half a million of our ancestors from their homelands, inflicting immense suffering and loss upon our people.
Whereas the early 1900s witnessed further injustices as new settlers imported ethnic Mongols from Asia, subjected them to cultural erasure in Catholic boarding schools, and reclassified them as “Native Americans,” while educators like Albert Bushnell Hart and Walter Ashby Plecker propagated harmful narratives and policies aimed at marginalizing our true heritage.