{"id":2081,"date":"2017-03-10T10:34:54","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T18:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latinwavesmedia.com\/wordpress\/?p=2081"},"modified":"2017-03-10T10:34:54","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T18:34:54","slug":"newcomb-speaks-about-his-book-pagans-in-the-promised-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latinwavesmedia.com\/wordpress\/newcomb-speaks-about-his-book-pagans-in-the-promised-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcomb speaks about his book Pagans in the Promised Land"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200bSteven Newcomb speaks about his book Pagans in the Promised Land which decodes the hidden Old Testament religious basis of the doctrine of discovery as it relates to federal Indian law and policy.<\/p>\n

Steven T. Newcomb,indigenous law research coordinator for the Sycuan Band of the
\nKumeyaay Nation, uses extensive research to argue that the United States cannot achieve a true separation of church and state so long as US federal Indian law and policy are premised on the religious categories \u201cChristian people\u201d and \u201cheathens.<\/p>\n