The Creator Has Been Heard
Why we are marching
We undertake the Long March to Rome to remember the countless millions of indigenous worldwide who for 500 years have suffered and died through the wars, forced resettlement, disease and conquest justified by two papal orders or bulls, called Romanus Pontifex (1455) issued by Pope Nicholas V and Inter Caetera (1493) pronounced by Pope Alexander […]
I – The story of Himko Kaps Kap
My name is Himko Kaps Kap. My name was the name of my great-great grandfather who was a war Chief, the full brother to the Nez Perce Chief Toohulhulsote, from the Salmon River, Idaho. During a war with the United States, Toohulhulsote was killed at the Battle of Bear Paw in September 30, 1877. My […]
II – The Doctrine of Discovery
In 1823, Justice Marshall of the US Supreme Court ruled that when the European nations discovered America “they asserted the ultimate dominion to be in themselves; and claimed and exercised, as a consequence of this ultimate dominion, a power to grant the soil, while yet in possession of the natives.” When I first heard this, […]
III – Terra Nullius
In 1455, Pope Nicolas V issued a papal bull titled Romanus Pontifex, under his authority as “Vicar of God” and authorized King Alfonso of Portugal to “invade, search out, capture, vanquish, and subdue pagans and other enemies of Christ wheresoever placed”, and “to seize all the kingdoms, dukedoms, principalities, dominions, possessions, and all movable and […]
IV – The Shout
In the year 1515, 500 years ago, King Francis 1st acceded to the throne of France. This was the king who would see the great Iroquois Donnaconna and his sons paraded like circus animals by the explorer Jacques Cartier in the Court of Fontainebleau after being kidnapped from their lands. Now, five hundred years […]

THE CREATOR HAS BEEN HEARD. A message from Himko Kaps Kap, (Cayuse), of the Cayuse Nation in the Umatilla Confederacy, co-founding Director of the Long March to Rome and Delegation Lead to the Mission in Rome. ON MAY 4TH 2016, THE ANNIVERSARY DATE OF THE INFAMOUS 1493 VATICAN DECREE KNOWN AS INTER CAETERA, 11 INDIGENOUS LEADERS, UNDER THE WATCHFUL EYE OF THE CREATOR, BROUGHT A MESSAGE TO POPE FRANCIS.

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HISTORIC INDIGENOUS MISSION ASKS POPE FRANCIS TO REVOKE THE PAPAL BULLS OF DISCOVERY

Message for POPE FRANCIS:

If you believe in EQUALITY, revoke the PAPAL BULLS

Join the Worldwide Petition

VATICAN RESPONSE!

Archbishop Tomasi answers Long March to Rome

BLUEPRINT FOR DISCOVERY

How the Papal Bulls shackled the New World

A CALL ON INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

– WORLDWIDE –

TO JOIN IN

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On May 1, 2016, a group of indigenous peoples, hereditary chiefs and elders will arrive in the city of Paris France where they will take their first steps of a historic pilgrimage towards Rome, Italy, along the ancient Via Francigena Road.

To find out why, CLICK on the COYOTE.

The Creator Has Been Heard

Why we are marching

I – The story of Himko Kaps Kap

II – The Doctrine of Discovery

III – Terra Nullius

IV – The Shout