Teaching Team Member Shawn Bowers Buxton starts her talk on April 16, 2023 with a discussion about the Doctrine of Discovery - a Catholic concept recently renounced that excused the violent seizure of land from indigenous peoples . Being raised Catholic, Shawn discusses how her oppressors formed the foundation of her faith practice and that her own deconstruction of these ideas is an act of decolonization.

Teaching Team Member Shawn Bowers Buxton starts her talk on April 16, 2023 with a discussion about the Doctrine of Discovery - a Catholic concept recently renounced that excused the violent seizure of land from indigenous peoples . Being raised Catholic, Shawn discusses how her oppressors formed the foundation of her faith practice and that her own deconstruction of these ideas is an act of decolonization.