What Is the Doctrine of Discovery?

Pert: The doctrine of discovery was that indigenous peoples on the lands were deemed unable to govern themselves. Pert: So legally, a the doctrine of discovery conveyed legal title to an ownership of american soil to european nations. And so when we're talking about this legal title, it devolves to the united states later on. But what happens next after the sort of formation of the united states? Ye, i think we can. We have this elaborate lebal framework that lets you steal people's land and murder them and then control it. Then the outgrowth of that is this sort of weird event where the colonies go into rebellion, and suddenly, ye, the there's