On May 4, 1493, Pope Alexander VI issued a Papal Bull called “Inter Catera.” This Papal Bull issued over five hundred years ago impacts us right now. Inter Catera states that: any land not inhabited by Christians was available to be “discovered,” claimed, and exploited by Christian rulers and declared that “the Catholic faith and the Christian religion be exalted and be everywhere increased and spread, that the health of souls be cared for and that barbarous nations be overthrown and brought to the faith itself.”1
This is what established the European Doctrine of Discovery. It was this doctrine that Europeans used to claim land that really did not belong to them. This doctrine was not agreed to outside of Europe; therefore, all claims made by European descendants here about what they discovered are false, and basically every European American is a descendant of what is considered an illegal immigrant today.