Unitarian Universalist clergy across the Pacific Western Region answered a call to be in solidarity at Standing Rock, North Dakota, where Standing Rock Sioux activists are opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline. The gathering included a repudiation of the “Doctrine of Discovery,” a 1493 document “that guided colonization of the Americas and became part of U.S. American law, history and dominant culture” (UUA, “Doctrine of Discovery and Rights of Indigenous Peoples”).
UU solidarity, Dakota Access Pipeline protest
Unitarian Universalist clergy across the Pacific Western Region answered a call to be in solidarity at Standing Rock, North Dakota, where Standing Rock Sioux activists are opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline. The gathering included a repudiation of the “Doctrine of Discovery,” a 1493 document “that guided colonization of the Americas and became part of U.S. American law, history and dominant culture” (UUA, “Doctrine of Discovery and Rights of Indigenous Peoples”).