"Not to mention a roadside roll call of mostly forgotten massacres that would be global sensations if they happened today." Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/02/19/3746021/texas-historical-markers-offer.html#storylink=cpy Genocide is deep in the dark heart of Texas. Texas highways have more monuments and plaques, aka ‘road-side history’, which document the settler Texan society’s methods for accumulating capital: land, raw resources, and subjugated labour to refine and distribute earth and bodies as commodities into the market.  In a most sinister and brazen way, Texas highways and roads demonstrate an obsession to glorifying killing societies who got away with atrocity and the mass theft, chilling overthrow, and illegitimate seizure of Indigenous peoples’ sovereign territories, knowledge systems, and raw resources.  Exterminated, mutilated, decapitated, lynched, burned, and deported ‘Indians’ and ‘Mexicans’ is a catch all for anti-Indigenous nation...

Margo Tam e z: An Indigenous Perspective on the United States' human rights violations against Indigenous peoples from the bifurcated Texas-Mexico b order region and the uses of the UNDRIP by Indigenous pe oples, acad emic researchers and human rights legal teams . See the vimeo by Social Anthropologist, Melanie Nielsen Emonet :  "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 :  .

Indigenous Embodiment of Governance--From Margins to Center : At the conclusion of a final exam in the INDG 302: Indigenous Perspectives of Governance, Indigenous peoples integrated Indigenous pedagogical and ontological practices into the Indigenous Governance classroom putting complex theory into action.  After a  three hour exam, conducted as a traditional Indigenous council and decision-making council, which included sharing food, stories, and emotional testimonies, the lighting of sacred sage and smudging the space to purify the room of any negativity that might harm future persons occupying the room was conducted. In doing so, Indigenous peoples integrated a founding pillar of Indigenous knowledge systems deemed a core tenet of Indigenous epistemological and ontological systems.  In doing so, Indigenous peoples may have set off a number of micro to macro reactions of fear, bias, and ignorance among individuals and groups within the university system, who perceive ...

    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: Ret...

"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 in...

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 conte...

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

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"...

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!

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 " ...

On the persistent defiance of the logic of imperialism ... My parallel universe 'self' intercepted my touchgraph while cruising my google alerts. AS NEO SAID TO THE ORACLE, "BUT, WHAT DOES IT MEAN?" Hey Nils and Theron...Per usual, I'm few beats late to the conversation. I would advise anyonewho is seriously committed to the larger structural uses of E-portfolios by contemporary students-- who by the way do not view the college classroom as their most significant 'center' of knowledge and tool acquisition, (providing one is inclined to view the technology and control over the production as the domain of liberatory education)--,to examine their assumptions about knowledge and power and the political will of the Indigenous peoples. Like it or not, Indigenous Peoples are re-shaping international law, rights regimes, and more borders than ever before--and this is increasingly relevant to e-portfolios. We need a new framework. Why such rigid parameters about...

    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).