Robert Miller has posted his paper, “Christianity, American Indians, and the Doctrine of Discovery,” on SSRN. It is published in REMEMBERING JAMESTOWN: HARD QUESTIONS ABOUT CHRISTIAN MISSION, Amos Yong, Barbara Brown Zikmund, eds., Pickwick Publications, 2010.
The abstract:
The European countries that explored and colonized North America utilized the international law Doctrine of Discovery to claim the sovereign, property, and human rights of Indigenous peoples. Discovery was developed primarily in the fifteenth century by Spain, Portugal, England, and the Church and was designed to control the acquisition of non-European lands. The assumed superiority of European religions and civilizations played a major role in justifying Discovery. Starting with the fifteenth century papal bulls and the later English Royal charters, the primary goals of colonization were alleged to be “propagating Christian Religion” and bringing “human civility” to the “pagan,” “heathen,” “Infidels and Savages” who “yet live[d] in Darkness and miserable ignorance of the true Knowledge and Worship of God.” The United States Supreme Court expressly adopted the Doctrine of Discovery in 1823 in Johnson v. M’Intosh and expressly relied on Christian religion and Euro-American civilization to justify its decision. The goals of, and the justifications for, Discovery continued to be part of United States Indian policy and Manifest Destiny until nearly the end of the twentieth century.
Turtle Talk 
More evidence of my position that “law” is constructed primarily to serve the personal interests of those who create it. Why does everyone “whorsphip” the law as if it is a deity? Hmm? Just more “rules” created by certain folks for their own game playing.
Debunking the Doctrines of Discovery!
All that is described within the legal and religous context is correct. However the view expressed respectfully falls short of the biggest picture availalble.
A Jamestown colored prism fails to see beyond the shores of Turtle Island. The biggest picture and pattern of God is here from inside the context of a promise God made to his twelve tribes. A promise to scatter and seal them among the nations.
* Day Tribe Date Document Modern Nation
1 Dan
6 Oct 1579 OS Union of Utrecht Netherlands
12,001 Judah
13 Aug 1612 OS Letter/Zemski Sobar/House of Romanov Russia
24,001 Reuben
21 Jun 1645 OS Treaty of Bromsebro Sweden
36,001 Gad
29 Apr 1678 OS Treaty of Nijmegen Spain
48,001 Asher
7 Mar 1710 OS Treaty of Szatmár Austria/Hungary
60,001 Naphtali
13 Jan 1743 OS Treaty of Breslau/Treaty of Berlin Germany
72,001 Manasseh
1 Dec 1776 NS US Declaration of Independence United States
84,001 Simeon
10 Oct 1809 NS Treaty of Schönbrunn France
96,001 Levi
18 Aug 1842 NS Law Change/Civil War Switzerland
108,001 Issachar
26 Jun 1875 NS Decree/Revolt/Treaty of Berlin in 1878 Serbia
120,001 Zebulun
4 May 1908 NS Agreement/Turks leave Crete, Greeks remain Greece
132,001 Joseph
12 Mar 1941 NS Lend Lease Treaty funds WWII US/UK
144,001 Benjamin
18 Jan 1974 Disengagement of Forces Agreement Israel
Garry Umphress
* source http://www.bibletribes.org/