The Law of Nations
The Law of Nations is a book written by Emmerich de Vattel.[1]
In Anishinabek News
- December 2019: First published in France in 1758, this book argued that only societies that made proper use of land through cultivation and settlement deserved to keep it. The text was used to justify taking lands from Indigenous peoples who lived by hunting, trapping, and fishing. A government report in 1844 explicitly cited this work to support the policy of confining Indigenous people to narrower limits.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Losers weepers – The Law of Nations", Anishinabek News, 5 December 2019 (archived copy; original article).