MARGO TAMEZ
(L) Margo Tamez' testimony at Inter-American Commission on Human Rights/Organization of American States, 2009; (R) Margo Tamez witnessing and documenting construction of the U.S. Border Wall, El Calaboz Rancheria, Texas-Mexico Border and the impacts upon Indigenous peoples and Indigenous lands.
Margo Tamez, PhD (Washington State University, 2010); M.F.A., (Arizona State University, 1997), B.A. (University of Texas at Austin, 1985); B.A. (University of Texas at Austin, 1984)
Assistant Professor, Cross-Appointed in Indigenous Studies & Gender-Women's Studies
Department of Community, Culture and Global Studies
Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences
University of British Columbia Okanagan
ART269, 3333 University Way
Kelowna, BC Canada V1V 1V7
Office: ART 269
Phone: (250) 807-9837
E-mail: margo.tamez@ubc.ca
Publications
Books (Refereed)
Raven Eye. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2007. (Winner, Willa Award, 2009).
Naked Wanting. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2003.
Dissertation
Nádasi‟né‟ nde' isdzáné begoz'aahi' shimaa shini' gokal Gową goshjaa haánáidiłí texas nakaiyé godesdzog [Trans., Returning Lipan Apache Women’s Laws, Lands, & Power in El Calaboz Ranchería, Texas-Mexico Border, 1546-2009]. Washington State University. (2010).
Articles (Refereed)
"Indigenous Women, Anti-Colonial Histories, and Resurgent Autonomy Movements: the U.S.-Mexico Militarized Zones of War and Occupation". Works & Days 57/58. Invisible Battlegrounds: Feminist Resistance in the Global Age of War and Imperialism. 29.1 & 2 (2011): 281 - 318.
"Restoring Lipan Apache Women's Laws, Lands, and Strength in El Calaboz Ranchería at the Texas-Mexico Border.” Signs Vol. 35: 3 (Spring 2010): 558 - 569.
"An Open Letter to Cameron County Commission." The Crit, Vol. 2, Issue, (Winter 2009): 110-129.
"Space, Position, and Imperialism in South Texas: Dr. Eloisa Garcia Tamez v. U.S. Secretary Michael Chertoff, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Border Patrol, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers." Vol. 7, Issue 2, (Spring 2008): 112-121.
"Presidio." The Borderlands: An Encyclopedia of Culture and Politics on the U.S.-Mexico Divide. Andrew Wood, Ed. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2008: 213-216.
"Tejanos-Tejanas." The Borderlands: An Encyclopedia of Culture and Politics on the U.S.-Mexico Divide. Andrew Wood, Ed. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2008, 263-267.
Publications (Refereed)
"And this is the place called home.” Entre Guadalupe y Malinche: A Tejana Anthology of Literature and Art. Inez Hernandez-Avila (Nez Perce) and Norma E. Cantu, Editors. Austin: The University of Texas Press, forthcoming.
“La Dormilona.” Entre Guadalupe y Malinche: A Tejana Anthology of Literature and Art. Inez Hernandez-Avila (Nez Perce) and Norma E. Cantu, Editors. Austin: The University of Texas Press, forthcoming.
“A Matrix of Walls: Human Rights and Indigenous Challenges to the 21st Century Settler Society on the Texas-Mexico Border.” Injustice for All: The Rise of the U.S. Immigration Policing Regime. Oakland: National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights & The Human Rights Immigrant Community Action Network (HURRICANE), December 2010.
“First Choice.” Camino del Sol: Fifteen Years of Latina and Latino Writing, Rigoberto González, Ed. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2010, 117.
“For Keeps.” Camino del Sol: Fifteen Years of Latina and Latino Writing, Rigoberto González, Ed. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2010, 118.
"First Stitch." Spotlight on Nawal el Saadawi: The Creativity of Nawal; the Dissidence of Saadawi. London: SABLE LitMag Ltd., 2007.
“The Daughter of Lightning.” Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art, and Thought. Ann Arbor: McNaughton & Gunn, Inc., 2007.
“Béti Leaves.” Ecotone: Reimagining Place, Volume I, Number 2, Winter/Spring 2006, David Gessner, Editor. Wilmington: University of North Carolina, 2006.
"Where the Lipan Pray," Orion, July/August 2005.
"Pinal County, Arizona--Multiplying Damages." Wild Thoughts: An On-Line Journal of
Environmental Writing, April 2005.
“Toxic Struggles, ‘Talk’, and A Living Language: Being Indian—Unsilent and Contaminated”,
The Los Angeles Review. Mark E. Cull, Editor. Guest Edited by Jewell Parker Rhodes. 2004.
“Difficult and Blessed,” The Peace Review. San Francisco State University, 1999.
Invited Intervention Papers, Recommendation Papers & Concept Papers
“Ndé-Nneé Statement to Grand Chief Edward John, Hereditary Chief of Tl’azt’en Nation, North American Representative, United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.”
Requesting Organization(s): North American Indigenous Peoples’ Caucus, Lipan Apache Band of Texas, Dr. Eloisa Garcia Tamez of El Calaboz Ranchería, Lipan Apache Women Defense.
Date: March 18, 2011
“Ndé-Nneé (Lipan Apache, San Carlos Apache) Recommendations at the North American Indigenous Peoples’ Caucus. UNFII-10 Agenda Item 3(a): Economic and Social Development.
Requesting Organization(s): North American Indigenous Peoples’ Caucus, Lipan Apache Band of Texas, Dr. Eloisa Garcia Tamez of El Calaboz Ranchería, Lipan Apache Women Defense.
Date: March 19, 2011
“Indigenous Peoples and Enduring Presence on the Land along the Texas-Mexico Border and
Lower Rio Grande River: A Report on Local Indigenous Responses to the U.S. Border Wall & Climate Change.”
Requesting Organization: Seventh Generation for Indian Development
Date: December 20, 2010.
“Consultation in the Matter of U.S. Condemnation & Possession of Customary Lipan Apache
Lands in El Calaboz Ranchería : U.S. v. 26 Acres of Land, and Eloisa G. Tamez, et al, 1:08-cv-0351; U.S. v. .41 Acres of Land and Benavides, et al, 1:08-cv-309,”
Requesting Organization: The Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law, Los Angeles, California.
Date: April 23, 2009
“Lipan Apache Histories, Cultures, Sacred Sites, Archaeological Resources, Ecological Rights
and Indigenous Rights, in the Lower Rio Grande, with respect to Cameron County and Crown Titled and Land Grant Lands Held by Lipan Apache Lineal Descendents, in the case of Eloisa Garcia Támez.” Consultation Brief, Interrogatories.
Requesting Organization: Judge Andrew Hanen, Federal District 5, Brownsville, Texas.
Date: January 21, 2009
“Intervention Statement: ‘Human Rights, Indigenous Women, Families & Militarization.’”
United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, 8th Session, May 19-29, 2009.
Requesting Organization: Lipan Apache Women Defense, El Calaboz Ranchería, Texas.
Date: May 20, 2009
“An Open Letter to Cameron County (Texas) Commission: Regarding Impacts to Lipan Apache
Families, the Environment, Indigenous Cultures, and Traditional Peoples’ Ways of Life along the Texas-Mexico Border, Specific to the Secure Fence Act of 2006.”
Requesting Organization: Lipan Apache Women Defense, El Calaboz Ranchería, Texas.
Date: June 2008
“Intervention Statement: ‘Global Warming, Environments, Livelihoods, Culture and Way of
Life, & Impacts of Militarization upon Lipan Apaches in El Calaboz Ranchería, Texas-Mexico Border.’” United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, 7th Session, April 21-May 2 2008.”
Requesting Organization: Lipan Apache Women Defense
Date: April 22, 2008
“Intervention Statement: ‘Lipan Apache Communities, the Secure Fence Act of 2006 and UN
Intervention on Behalf of Indigenous Peoples along the Texas-Mexico Border.’” United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racism and Racial Discrimination, December 2007.”
Requesting Organization: Lipan Apache Women Defense
Date: November 24, 2007
Refereed Creative-Critical Publications (Selected)
“My Mother in Her Being—Photograph, ca. 1947,” Callaloo: Celebrating Texas Writers, Part 1, Volume 32, Number 1, 2009, 185-187.
“My Mother Returns to Calaboz”, “The collection”, “On the Wing”, “Hummingbirds Compete for Tobacco.” What Wildness Is This?: Women Write About the Southwest. Susan Wittig Albert, Susan Hanson, Jan Epton Seale, and Paula Stallings Yost, Eds. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007.
“She Wakes Up to Watch the Sky”, “Ceremony of Peyote.” To Topos Poetry International: Ahani: Indigenous American Poetry. Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Editor. Corvallis: Oregon State University, 2006.
"Stinger." Puerto del Sol: The 40th Anniversary, Las Cruces: Puerto del Sol, New Mexico State University, (2005).
“I Buried Ten Children.” Dancing the Guns to Silence: 100 Poems For Ken Saro-Wiwa. London: Flipped Eye Publishing Ltd., 2005.
"Love Blood." Southern Griot, Spring 2005.
"The Digging Hole", "What She Knows" and "Playing Hangman", excerpts from Raven Eyes. American Poetry Review. Philadelphia: February 2005.
"First Choice,” New Rag Rising, 2003.
“My Mother Returns To El Calaboz.” Stories From Where We Live--The Gulf Coast. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2002.
“One At A Time,” “The Limp String”, “Term.” Sister Nations: Native Women Writing On Community. Minneapolis: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2002. Nominated for the Minnesota Book Award.
“Romantic”, “Valentine’s Day”, “The Sound of Doves”, “On the Wing.” The Missouri Review. Volume XXIV Number 3, 2001.
Research Interests
Gònìcéindé, Cìšįįhííndé, Cúelcahéndé, and Ìnààkàyíhįį ndé (‘Lipan Apache’) Recovery, Indigeneity, Decolonization & Self-Determination
Gònìcéi isdzáné (‘Lipan Apache women’) Anti-Colonial Resistances
Indigenous Peoples' Historical Perspectives of Spain, Mexico, Texas and U.S.: 1546-2009
Indigenous Governance, Treaties, Land Grants & Constructive Mechanisms, U.S.-Mexico Border
Indigenous Peoples' Human Rights
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Indigenous Women's Participation in Decision-Making
Extraction, Militarization, Climate Change
Indigenous Homelands & Territories, 'Immigration', & Labor
Indigital Knowledges & Mapping in Cyber Space
Nde-Nnee Spiritual Justice, Movements
Poetics Beyond Borders
Research By, With, For & Alongside Indigenous Peoples
Courses
GWST 110: Introduction to Women's Studies II
INDG 203: Indigenous Peoples' Historical Perspectives
INDG 310: Gender, Nation, State, Resistance
INDG 305: Indigenous Peoples Perspectives of Justice
INDG 302: Indigenous Peoples' Perspectives of Governance
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12/23/2011 1:43:12 PM
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Raven Eye (University of Arizona Press)
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