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For centuries, European monarchs used a 1493 Vatican decree to brutally colonize Native Americans. In Canada, more than 100,000 First Nations children were forced to attend residential schools that stripped them of their Indigenous identities and attempted to convert them to Christianity.
Indigenous communities are asking Pope Francis, visiting Canada this week, to do more than apologize for abuses of their people under Catholic authorities. They want Francis to revoke the church’s hated Doctrine of Discovery, already repudiated by the United Church of Christ and branches of the Methodist, Episcopal, and Mennonite churches.
“These religious ideas became the foundational building blocks of white supremacy and Manifest Destiny that we are dealing with today,” wrote Syracuse University religion professor Philip Arnold.
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 | | COURTESY OF LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA/DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FONDS | | Pictured above, students at Blue Quills, a boarding school for Indigenous children in Alberta, one of many religious schools created to convert Native children to Christianity and force assimilation. At top, Father Jacques Marquette, a 17th-century French missionary, is depicted exploring the Mississippi by canoe. Read more.
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 | | COURTESY ROYAL PAVILION & MUSEUMS, BRIGHTON & HOVE | | 40,000 years of faces: These facial reconstructions reveal volumes about England’s ancestry. A series of seven reconstructions challenge British notions about independence from Europe. “Science confirms that the history of the region is much more complicated than we once thought,” Nat Geo’s Kristin Romey writes. (At left, the reconstructed face of a woman who lived 5,600 years ago; at right, a man who died 2,300 years ago, under mysterious circumstances.)
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY LAUREN DECICCA, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION | | Time on the court: In one community in Cambodia, wheelchair basketball has changed the lives of a group of women. Nat Geo reports the members of the Battambang Roses reached the 2018 Asian Para Games. The image above was recently featured in our Photo of the Day archival collection.
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 | | LEFT: IMAGE BY PANTHEON STUDIOS, INC.; RIGHT: IMAGE BY WOLFGANG KAEHLER/LIGHTROCKET VIA GETTY IMAGES | | Beyond Freemasons: Secret societies—and yes, secret handshakes—have been a part of the world for thousands of years. But what do the societies do in the shadows? “They have toppled rulers and reshaped nations; influenced writers and artists; and changed the way people think about God,” Jean-Pierre Isbouts writes for Nat Geo. “And they’re still around.” (One ancient Greek secret society revolved around the Oracle of Delphi; pictured above left, the Delphic Sibyl; at right, the Temple of Apollo in Delphi.)
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