Full Description
This book introduces the Original Nation scholarship to examine the historical genealogy of the nation's struggles against the state. A fundamentally different portrait of history, geography, politics, and the role of law emerges when the perspective of the nation and peoples is placed at the center of geopolitical analysis of global affairs. In contrast to traditional and canonical state-centric narratives, the Original Nation scholarship offers a diametrically distinct "on-the-ground" and "bottom-up" portrait of the struggle, resistance, and defiance of the nation and peoples. It exposes persistent global patterns of genocide, ecocide, and ethnocide that have resulted from attempts by the state to occupy, suppress, exploit, and destroy the nation. The Original Nation scholarship offers a powerful and widely applicable intellectual tool to examine the history of resilience, emancipatory struggles, and collective efforts to build a vibrant alternative world among the nation and peoplesacross the globe.
Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction: The Original Nation Scholarship. - Chapter 2. The Nation and the State. - Chapter 3. The Conflict Between the Nation and the State. - Chapter 4. Original Nation Approaches to "Inter-National" Law (ONAIL): Definitive Dimensions of Ecologically-Centered "Inter-National" Legal Discourses. - Chapter 5. The Lakota Nation's Search for Independence: The Nation of Lakota versus the State of "The United States of America" and the Constitutional Amendments for National Liberation. - Chapter 6. Earth Jurisprudence, The Rights of Nature, and International Rights of Nature Tribunals, etc.
