'STATELESS' APACHES: "GENOCIDE", "HUMAN RIGHTS", "INDIGENOUS RIGHTS" AND "STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE"--NDE' WOMEN & CHILDREN IN INTERNATIONAL LAW
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 and enforced statelessness/de-nationalization/de-ethnicization as tools to further de-humanize and de-politicize Indigenous women's persistent advocacy to title to our ancient land-based, human identities.
'Stateless' at U.S. International borders with its ideological enemies--'Mexicans', for Nde' peoples, is a critical intervention in contemporary struggles for reclamation of our lands, cultures, peoples, identities and political structrures--under International Law.
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 and enforced statelessness/de-nationalization/de-ethnicization as tools to further de-humanize and de-politicize Indigenous women's persistent advocacy to title to our ancient land-based, human identities.
'Stateless' at U.S. International borders with its ideological enemies--'Mexicans', for Nde' peoples, is a critical intervention in contemporary struggles for reclamation of our lands, cultures, peoples, identities and political structrures--under International Law.
On genocide, and theories about the designation of the ENTIRE state of Texas as a platform for a U.S.-based genocide legal study in the 21st century...
There is a significant cluster of Nde' scholars currently working towards a formal, critical indigenous studies method that intersects law, critical race, genocide studies, and which theorizes the settler states along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Progress on this project will be posted here for discussion.
