MARGO TAMEZ: WAS SIGHTED MOVING ACROSS THE NORTHERN BORDER

 

 MARGO TAMEZ

Dagotee gozhonihii (Nde')

Joy all around you (English)

Deseo a usted lo mejor y alegria (Spanish)

•  Citizenship
  
  Nde' ('Lipan Apache'), Goschishnde' (Lightning Clan) Lower Rio Grande River (El Calaboz Rancheria)
• Suma-Nde' ('Jumano Apache'), (Red Painted People), Middle-Upper Rio Grande River, West Texas (El Polvo, El Mesquite, El Conejo, El Mulato Chihuahua)

•  PhD, American Studies Program
  Washington State University
  Pullman, Washington

• Contact margo.tamez@ubc.ca
  
  Current and On-Going Interests
• Human Rights, Militarization, UN DRIP, Indigenous Women, Indigenous Governance, Doctrine of Discovery, Indigenous Autonomy & Self-Determination Movements
  Lipan Apache Women Defense
  
  Research Partners
  Teresa Leal
  Lori Riddle
   
• Currently Revising Manuscript
• Nádasi’né’ nde' isdzáné begoz'aahi' shimaa shini' gokal
  Gową goshjaa ha’áná’idiłí texas-nakaiyé godesdzog[Translation: Returning Lipan Apache Women’s Laws, Lands, & Strength in El Calaboz Ranchería, Texas-Mexico Border]

Quote of the day: (or archiving of a historical cluster of words)

"there is no singular epiphany"...

"it’s more than a dream, actually. It’s been realized. It will be a new standard that, I hope, will apply to every intellectual work, a consistent way of naming every piece of intellectual creation"

JA: That’s right, and the idea is to create an intellectual robustness. So if you think about citations when using URLs, if we make an intellectual work, we stand on the shoulders of giants, which we all do, and we cite our influences in some way—not necessarily in a formal academic sense, but we simply refer to them by linking to the original thing you were looking at. URLs are an example of how we become intellectually dependent on this citation mechanism. But if that citation mechanism is actually like plasticine, and it is decaying all around us—if oligarchs and billionaires are in there ripping out bits of history, or connections between one part of history and another, because it interferes with their agenda—then the intellectual constructs that we are building up about our civilization are being built on something that is unstable. We are building an intellectual scaffold for civilization out of plasticine.

"HUO: So in that sense it’s actually regressive compared to the book. No dictator can remove parts of a published book in the same way.

JA: Exactly. So this new idea that I want to introduce to protect the work of WikiLeaks can also be extended to protect all intellectual products. All creative works that can be put into digital form can be linked in a way that depends on nothing but the intellectual content of the material itself—no reliance on remote servers or any organization. It is simply a mathematical function on the actual intellectual content, and people would need nothing other than this function."

From, "In Conversation with Julian Assange Part I"

DECOLONIZE U.S. BRDR PRZNZ : #4, SERIES, FROM indigenous brdr narratives after the wall

To experience the community lands in the current period is to merely peer through and above the narrow gaps of thick steel bars. Indigenous peoples are being prevented access and movement to, from and across customary lands, and cultural property by U.S. legislation. Indigenous peoples’ concerted efforts to challenge the legality of U.S. deathscapes and settler ecologies/economies of war:

“i.e.: a technology-saturated ‘roof’ of militarized airspace,

filled with satellites,

space debris plummeting down

and being vaporated by

NASA Space Engineers in Florida

stadium lights,

and agents stalking indigenous women

under cover,

in the dark,

infrared radar,

watch towers, drones,

unmanned spy

aircraft, and cyber information

sharing crackdowns, spearheaded

through the “Virtual Border

Neighborhood Watch Program”,

“border radio interoperability”,

the “Texas Data Exchange” programs,

and “K-9 units”[1]

demands a critical genocide analysis in the context of indigenous peoples’ challenges to maintain safety, protection, and self-governance in our communities.[1]

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[1] Ibid, 4.

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[1] Margo Tamez, “decolonize u.s. brdr prznz: #4,” from indigenous brdr narratives after the wall, open access cyber-e-collection, Indigifem Blog, at.

AGAINST SILENCE--SUSTAINING PRESSURE ON GENOCIDAL ACTS AGAINST LIPAN APACHES ALONG THE WALL

nobody can hear us
by this wall

History and Memory
Twin Monster Slayers
Twin Dons
Twin Patrons
Twin Caciques
Twin Chiefs
Twin Mischiefs
Twin Mister Chiefs

Palpable containments

Carceral aspects

Punative suspects

Research assets

Nde' pain

Compressed, stolen,

Steel

Wall

Enclosure

enclosed her

Memory and Repression

doesn't even leave pulp behind
when it consumes us

Human Rights, Indigenous Women, Re-Making Memory

RAVEN EYE, book review, by William Arce

Excerpt:

"The emphasis on "revolution" and "women" is at stake throughout the whole text. ... the women in the "rez" find themselves under the dual oppression of their men and of white society."

"The last poems are especially moving in their range and scope. Elements of lost history, forgiveness, spirittual healing and the omnipotent power of memory ore resurrected: "Raen knows/Raven breaths"...

On the Application of Mbembe's Thesis of Necropolitics/Necropower to 'Apache Studies'--sustaining the critique of U.S. Hyper-Sovereignty

Currently revising Chapter 3, a good thing Professor Shepherd nudged me to slow down and 'do' the Anglo-American early-to-late modern build-up of narratives which supported hyper-sovereignty, i.e. the power to kill without end.

Currently reviewing Mbembe's work which will support my thesis (forthcoming in my dissertation!, sorry, can't share yet, though after May will link the diss here, so thanks and be patient!)

Blue Skies in Pullman--believe it or NOT! I'm outa here!

I'm Searching for a Better Fit: Democratizing Knowledge and Mobilizing Social Movement Texts and Contexts Beyond Individualization

Frustrated with how dependent the Sharepoint model is upon one person's ideations, skills, knowledge and energy, and thinking about future projects as I move into the Job Market in search of a new home, I got to browsing digital journals this morning.

I found good news and am feeling hopeful that my move forward toward new communities will be empowered through critical dialogues and collaborations with engaged civic minded actors.

Although I will be focused on completing my dissertation over the next 45 days, and the intensity of that effort, I am mindful that I want new tools and methods, and seeking new commitments from collaborators... to go further, to build new engines and scales.

Are you Curious?

Here are a few places I'm visiting this morning:
"Programmed Visions" Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and Raegan Kelly

"Blue Velvet" by David Goldbert, Stefka Hristova, Erik Loyer, and Liu Sola

"VECTORS"

"Kairos"

"Hypercities"

"Public Matters"