Editing Discovery (observation) (section)

==Exploration==
[[Western culture]] has used the term "discovery" in their histories to lay claims over lands and people as "discovery" through [[discovery doctrine]]s and subtly emphasize the importance of "[[exploration]]" in the history of the world,<ref>{{cite web|title=The racist language of space exploration|url=https://theoutline.com/post/5809/the-racist-language-of-space-exploration|website=The Outline|access-date=20 September 2019|date=14 August 2018|author=Caroline Haskins|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191016235916/https://theoutline.com/post/5809/the-racist-language-of-space-exploration|archive-date=16 October 2019|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=When discussing Humanity's next move to space, the language we use matters.|url=https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/urban-scientist/when-discussing-humanity-8217-s-next-move-to-space-the-language-we-use-matters/|website=[[Scientific American]]|access-date=20 September 2019|date=26 March 2015|author=DNLee|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190914011756/https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/urban-scientist/when-discussing-humanity-8217-s-next-move-to-space-the-language-we-use-matters/|archive-date=14 September 2019|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=2018-11-09|title=We need to change the way we talk about space exploration|first=Nadia|last=Drake|author-link=Nadia Drake|publisher=[[National Geographic]]|access-date=2019-10-19|url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/11/we-need-to-change-way-we-talk-about-space-exploration-mars/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191016235826/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/11/we-need-to-change-way-we-talk-about-space-exploration-mars/|archive-date=2019-10-16|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1016/0265-9646(95)93233-B |title=Development and imperialism in space |author=Alan Marshall |date=February 1995 |journal=Space Policy |volume=11 |issue=1 |pages=41–52 |bibcode=1995SpPol..11...41M |access-date=2020-06-28 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/222641231}}</ref> such as in the "[[Age of Discovery]]", the [[New World]] and any [[Frontier thesis|frontierist]] endeavour even into space as the "[[New Frontier]]".
In the course of this discovery, it has been used to describe the first incursions of peoples from one culture into the geographical and cultural environment of others. However, calling it "discovery" has been rejected by many [[indigenous peoples]], from whose perspective it was not a discovery but a [[first contact (anthropology)|first contact]], and consider the term "discovery" to perpetuate [[colonialism]], as for the discovery doctrine<ref name="frichner">Frichner, Tonya Gonnella. (2010). [https://undocs.org/E/C.19/2010/13 “Preliminary Study of the Impact on Indigenous Peoples of the International Legal Construct Known as the Doctrine of Discovery.”] E/C.19/2010/13. Presented at the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, Ninth Session, United Nations Economic and Social Council, New York, 27 Apr 2010.</ref> and frontierist concepts like ''[[terra nullius]]''.

Discovery and the age of discovery have been alternatively, particularly regionally, referred to through the terms contact, ''Age of Contact''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://texasourtexas.texaspbs.org/the-eras-of-texas/age-of-contact/|author=Katie Whitehurst|publisher=[[PBS]]|title=Age of Contact|access-date=9 January 2021}}</ref> or ''Contact Period''.<ref>{{cite book|chapter-url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_1641|date=2014|publisher=Springer|location=New York, NY|first=Michael Shakir|last=Nassaney|chapter=North America During the European Contact Period |editor=Claire Smith|title=Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology| pages=5350–5371 | doi=10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_1641 | isbn=978-1-4419-0426-3 |access-date=9 January 2021}}</ref>