Lately, I contemplate the 'status' of Nde' women in El Calaboz Rancheria, at the U.S.-Mexico International Boundary, and struggle with our positionality in relation to the histories of empires, states and nation-states which illegitimately 'settled' our traditional lands. Lately, the term 'stateless' emerged in an article by historian Brian DeLay which struck a chord, though I think DeLay and I use the concept in divergent ways. Stateless, dispossessed, peasants, nomadic-- these are all terms which the state and western legal thought has utilized/and utilizes as surgical tools to disrupt and alienate/make foreign aboriginal peoples' undeniable inherent relationship with and to our own lands legally, culturally, ideologically and psychologically. In contemporary legal advocacies, numerous Indigenous women's organizations utilize international mechanisms to draw critical attention to the convergences of state violence, war crimes, economic violence an...