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: Retu...

I am happy to provide more information about the multiple places where the work gets done. Please email me at : mtamez@wsu.edu

Lately, I contemplate the 'status' of Nde' women in El Calaboz Rancheria, at the U.S.-Mexico International Boundary, and struggle with our positionality in relation to the histories of empires, states and nation-states which illegitimately 'settled' our traditional lands. Lately, the term 'stateless' emerged in an article by historian Brian DeLay which struck a chord, though I think DeLay and I use the concept in divergent ways. Stateless, dispossessed, peasants, nomadic-- these are all terms which the state and western legal thought has utilized/and utilizes as surgical tools to disrupt and alienate/make foreign aboriginal peoples' undeniable inherent relationship with and to our own lands legally, culturally, ideologically and psychologically. In contemporary legal advocacies, numerous Indigenous women's organizations utilize international mechanisms to draw critical attention to the convergences of state violence, war crimes, economic violence an...

THERON TAKES PICTURES OF HIS MIND AT WORK ... AS HE CONSIDERS THE PATTERNS, RAIN AND STORMS IN MARGO'S THINKING AND PROCESSES... In Spring 2008, I entered into a collaborative thought process with staff at WSU's CTLT center, a place where I received much technical support for developing an on-line presence. Theron Desrosier (CTLT staff) assisted me in numerous research and academic pursuits to the will of Indigenous Peoples' Principles. A fraction of what we accomplished is published on numerous sites, some linked to this site, on the right-hand bar. During this process, Theron and his CTLT colleagues discussed certain aspects of my project a community-based endeavor geared toward the empowerment of Indigenous women's strategies against western legal thought, systems and institutions along the U.S.-Mexico International Boundary, specifically, relevant to Nde' and Nnee' (Apache) women's still undergrounded histories in colonization--both past and present. Th...

The 'Necro-Political Order'--Settler Society Armed 'civil' Militias & Organizing to 'the Highest Power of Death' [Credit for the concept, and my building upon it, is owed to Rosa-Linda Fregoso-- Ahe'ye'e sister, your work is empowering to Lipan Apache families.] Nde' Indigenous Democracy--And Organizing To the Highest Power of Life Margo Tamez

Curriculum Vitae PUBLICATIONS (short list): Raven Eye , University of Arizona Press, 2007. Winner--2008 Willa Award Naked Wanting , University of Arizona Press, 2003. Alleys & Allies, Saddle Tramp Press, 1990. (300 run; Last 20 in author's possession). "Presidio" & "Tejana/o", The Borderlands: An Encyclopedia of Culture and Politics on the U.S.-Mexico Divide . 2007. "Space, Position, and Imperialism in South Texas," The Journal of Mujeres Activas En Letras Y Cambio Social, Volume 7, Issue 2, Spring 2008, 112-121. Links to new articles, essays, interventions...(under construction).