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Join your host, J. Kehaulani Kauanui for an episode that will focus on the politics of Columbus Day and the Papal Bull, "Inter Caetera," of 1493 . This decree was issued by Pope Alexander IV to Christopher Columbus by the Roman Catholic Church on his second voyage to the Americas along with the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas, which sought to establish Christian dominion over the world and called for the subjugation of non-Christian peoples and seizure of their lands. The decree, which granted rights to land throughout North and South America to Spain, under girds much of international law today, as well as the Doctrine of Discovery that is enshrined in US federal Indian policy. This program includes interviews with Castanha - a Jibaro activist with indigenous roots in Puerto Rico, who organized the event, and is project director of the indigenous peoples delegation that went to the Vatican in 2000 calling for the revocation of the 1493 papal bull "Inter Caetera." As part of an anti-Columbus Day event honoring Indigenous Peoples resistance, Castanha organized an 11th annual Papal Bull burning in Hawai`i. This year's event on October 12, 2008 took place in front of the Walmart in Honolulu to bring attention to the desecration of Native Hawaiian remains in a legal suit involving the construction of the store. Also hear from Paulette Ka`anohi Kaleikini who is a cultural descendant laying claim to these ancestral remains that are currently stored in boxes under the ramp of the store due to a lawsuit contesting their re-internment.
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