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Rather than accepting the convenient terminology of BIPOC, IBPOC, First Nations, Indigenous or Aboriginal, we need to assert our Nationhood and unique identities.

From Salon • Sep. 24, 2023

Foremost among these studies is one produced by the Nationhood Lab at Salve Regina University's Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy, and first reported on in Politico.

From Salon • May 1, 2023

In his new book Invisible Countries: Journeys to the Edge of Nationhood, Slate’s Joshua Keating explores complex zones of identity and statehood.

From Slate • Jun. 20, 2018

After becoming President, De Gaulle transformed France from an archy into monarchy, from bankruptcy to prosperity, from poor sisterhood in the West to the self-styled leader of Third Nationhood in the world.

From Time Magazine Archive

So too Ireland: she was half-conquered by the Normans, broken, racked, ruined and crucified, a century before the idea of Nationhood had come into existence, and while centrifugalism was still the one force in Europe.

From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Morris, Kenneth