Verse 13: Do not murder.
The empires which discovered the New World were empowered by the Papal Bulls of the Catholic Church granting the Doctrine of Discovery that allowed for the killing, stealing and enslavement of all non-white, non-Christians in all discovered lands, this included the Chickamauga. The Chickamauga, in particular are victims of an orchestrated war of genocide and ethnic cleansing perpetrated against them by the United States and the Allied Tribes. Even Supreme Court Justice John Marshall used the Doctrine of Discovery instead of the Constitution in his Supreme Court rulings concerning Native Americans and their indigenous rights of personhood and land title.
How Dare White, European, Christians claim the mantle of Christ and commit horrific acts of genocide in His name. How dare they continue in their sin not only to displace a people from their won lands, but to murder them for the land and claim it is legal because a Pope of the Catholic church said non-white, non-Christians are not humans and therefore can be enslaved, have their lands taken and killed if necessary for the Christians to claim the lands. How dare a Christian in the 1500s, 1600s, 1700s, 1800s, 1900s or even today in the 2021 drag the name of Christ into the justification of murdering and committing genocide and ethnic cleansing just to take and steal land and possessions. This is without a question, exactly what happened to the Chickamauga and it is condoned today by White, European, Christians, along with the government of the United States and Allied Tribes.
According to the United Nations, the legal definition of genocide: Genocide is defined in Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948) as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part1; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; [and]forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."
Again, the United Nations defines Ethnic Cleansing as "…rendering an area ethnically homogeneous by using force or intimidation to remove persons of given groups from the area." In its final report S/1994/674, the same Commission described Genocide/Ethnic Cleansing as “… a purposeful policy designed by one ethnic or religious group to remove by violent and terror-inspiring means the civilian population of another ethnic or religious group from certain geographic areas.”
US Legal definition of Ethnic Cleansing: Ethnic Cleansing is the deliberate and systematic removal of a racial, political, or cultural group from a specific geographical area. A 1993 United Nations Commission defined it more specifically as, "the planned deliberate removal from a specific territory, persons of a particular ethnic group, by force or intimidation, in order to render that area ethnically homogeneous."
The term Ethnic Cleansing is different from genocide. These terms are not synonymous, yet the academic discourse considers both as existing in a spectrum of assaults on nations or religio-ethnic groups. Ethnic Cleansing is similar to forced deportation or 'population transfer' whereas genocide is the intentional murder of part or all of a particular ethnic, religious, or national group. The idea in Genocide/Ethnic Cleansing is "to get people to move, and the means used to this end range from the legal to the semi-legal”. Genocide is a subset of murderous Ethnic Cleansing. The war events in former Yugoslavia, especially in Bosnia and Kosovo is an example for Genocide/Ethnic Cleansing. Jews killed during Nazi regime is an example for genocide.
From the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Crimes Against Humanity
Crimes against humanity are defined as “any of the following acts when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population.” The acts include murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, imprisonment, torture, rape (and other gender-based or sex crimes), group-based persecution, enforced disappearance, apartheid, and “other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health.”
Source: 1998 Article 7, Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
White, European, Christians, and the United States Government and Allied Tribes confess what you have done, repent for what you have done, and make restitution for what you have done and continue to do to the Chickamauga.
(C) This document was produced at the request of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on July 18, 2019, to document the History, Anthropology, Culture, Religion, and Archaeology of The Chickamauga Nation.