of the 'improper mixing of the power of the church and the power of the sword. On November 3, 2016, a group of 524 clergy publicly burned copies of , as part of the Dakota Access Pipeline protests near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. As part of their demonstration, they invited a number of indigenous elders to authorize the burning. During Pope Francis's July 2022 penitential pilgrimage to Canada to apologize and ask forgiveness for abuses suffered by Canadian Indigenous children in residential schools, Canadian bishops called on the Catholic Church to issue a new statement on the doctrine of discovery. The bishops stated they "reject and resist the ideas associated with the Doctrine of Discovery in the strongest possible way". See also Aboriginal title First contact (anthropology) Frontier thesis Manifest destiny Monroe Doctrine Terra nullius References Further reading Lawlor, Mary. Public Native America: Tribal Self Representation in Casinos, Museums and Powwows, Rutgers University Press, 2006 Robert J. Miller and Elizabeth Furse, Native America, Discovered and Conquered: Thomas Jefferson, Lewis & Clark, and Manifest Destiny, Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2006 Miler, Robert J., and Jacinta Ruru. "An Indigenous Lens into Comparative Law: The Doctrine of Discovery in the United States and New Zealand". West Virginia Law Review 111 (2008): 849. Miller, R. J., Ruru, J., Behrendt, L., & Lindberg, T. (2010). Discovering indigenous lands: The doctrine of discovery in the English colonies. Oxford: Oxford University Press. External links Aboriginal title Colonialism European colonization of the Americas Human rights in the United States Imperialism International law John Marshall Legal doctrines and principles Property law