Sovereignty is a word with many meanings. The adaptation by Onkwehonweh (Original People) for common usage of this word most often relates to a hereditary political status that many have embraced....

Sovereignty is a word with many meanings. Because it is a Latin word in origination, adapted by the French language, there may be several definitions....

The interplay between law and language is fascinating. “Blood quantum” started without the modern racist connotations in early English cases involving inheritance from a particular person rather than from a racially defined category of persons....

There are some things we have not very often thought about or reflected upon because we have lacked the vocabulary necessary to name and think about those things....

When nations declare independence from the domination of other nations it is often within the context of the carnage of bloody confrontations, which tends to get the attention of international media (the old adage in the news business "if it bleeds it leads" really does apply)....