A delegation representing indigenous Canadians during their visit to the Vatican urged Pope Francis to revoke 15th-century papal orders that justify the seizure of their land by colonial powers.
it. we know who we are, and we are basing the new position that we took as we have okhete shakoi, represents the seven council fires and we have lit that fire after 150 years. what that is, is our cultural presence, and that is based on ancestral and natural law, so it predates the constitution of the united states. it predates the doctrine of discovery, and all the steps that go with that in taking our land for free, and so this is the unwritten law. we are the predecessor sovereign of america, and if any attack is made on us, the democratic thing to do is for america to secede