The role of Indigenous researchers whose communities are targeted in the post 9/11 re-colonization

Margo Tamez: An Indigenous Perspective on the United States' human rights violations against Indigenous peoples from the bifurcated Texas-Mexico border region and the uses of the UNDRIP by Indigenous peoples, academic researchers and human rights legal teams.

See the vimeo by Social Anthropologist, :  "Intervention by Margo Taméz, Lipan Apache, during the 5th session of the Expert Mechanism of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples at the UN in Geneva."
Margo Taméz: An Indigenous Perspective upon the Texas-Mexico Border from Melanie Nielsen Emonet on Vimeo here:  .


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