Margo Támez
Biographic Data
| ID | 226952 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margo Támez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margo |
| FAMILY NAME | Támez |
| SIGNATURE | TÁMEZ M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
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Indigenous Women’s Rivered Refusals in El Calaboz
This essay examines how Indigenous peoples trouble nation-state borders, and how the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and official histories, affect the community of El Calaboz, Texas. It showcases Ndé epistemology and ways of remembering through rivering ancestral relationships to place, language, and family. Through concrete knowledge-making sites like weaving, storytelling, and pictographs, the essay demonstrates an Indigenous refusal of …
Place and Perspective in the Shadow of the Wall
Research Article| April 01 2013 Place and Perspective in the Shadow of the Wall: Recovering Ndé Knowledge and Self-Determination in Texas Margo Tamez Margo Tamez Margo Tamez (Kónitsąąíí Cúelcahén Ndé) is an assistant professor of Indigenous studies at the University of British Columbia. Research interests include decolonization, indigeneity, human rights, and Ndé knowledge systems as explored in the recent publication "The Texas-Mexico Border Wal…
Áanzho Ha’shi ‘Dał’k’ida’, ‘Áá’áná’, ‘Doo Maanaashni’
Memory, re-membering, oral history and critical recovery are pillars of a Ndéi decolonization and self-determination process in indigenous peoples’ rancherías along the Lower Rio Grande River and Texas-Mexico border. The goals of this process are to dismantle the U.S. border wall bifurcating the customary lands of indigenous peoples; to reclaim dispossessed lands; and to revitalize Ndé ways of life in autonomy and self-governance. In the Ndé lang…
Restoring Lipan Apache Women’s Laws, Lands, and Strength in El Calaboz Ranchería at the Texas‐Mexico Border
Ndé gowągoshjaa (Lipan Apache families or clan relations) produce a significant portion of indigenous alliances and resistances to imperialism, colonization, industrialization, and militarization in the Lower Rio Grande Valley in south Texas. The visibility of Ndé isdzáné (Lipan Apache women) in the Lower Rio Grande Valley changed radically after the passage of the Secure Fence Act in 2006. In this essay, I speak from my position as one of the co…
My Mother in Her Being-Photograph
My Mother in Her Being—Photograph ca. 1947 Margo Tamez (bio) El Calaboz Ranchería, trans. ‘eathen dug-out prison’, Apache country, South Texas-Tamaulipas, 31 years after the 1910-1916 lynchings, burnings of Indians and mixed-bloods, and the militarized occupation of the lands, and the documentation 5000 dead community members, the forced removals, some named and some never found... You are the muddy river on the moon No one imagines Before me Few…
Difficult and blessed
On an autumn day, alone in the house for about 30 minutes or so, without the babies and my husband to attend to, I sat in a small, sun‐filled room looking over a book of poetry that I had just bought, The Living and the Dead by Sharon Olds. She writes about the circumstances of living and dying. I love the book for a poem, “35/10,” about a mother witnessing the “replacement” of one generation by another—"an old story,” as she calls it. In the poe…
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Difficult and blessed
On an autumn day, alone in the house for about 30 minutes or so, without the babies and my husband to attend to, I sat in a small, sun‐filled room looking over a book of poetry that I had just bought, The Living and the Dead by Sharon Olds. She writes about the circumstances of living and dying. I love the book for a poem, “35/10,” about a mother witnessing the “replacement” of one generation by another—"an old story,” as she calls it. In the poe…
My Mother in Her Being-Photograph
My Mother in Her Being—Photograph ca. 1947 Margo Tamez (bio) El Calaboz Ranchería, trans. ‘eathen dug-out prison’, Apache country, South Texas-Tamaulipas, 31 years after the 1910-1916 lynchings, burnings of Indians and mixed-bloods, and the militarized occupation of the lands, and the documentation 5000 dead community members, the forced removals, some named and some never found... You are the muddy river on the moon No one imagines Before me Few…
Restoring Lipan Apache Women’s Laws, Lands, and Strength in El Calaboz Ranchería at the Texas‐Mexico Border
Ndé gowągoshjaa (Lipan Apache families or clan relations) produce a significant portion of indigenous alliances and resistances to imperialism, colonization, industrialization, and militarization in the Lower Rio Grande Valley in south Texas. The visibility of Ndé isdzáné (Lipan Apache women) in the Lower Rio Grande Valley changed radically after the passage of the Secure Fence Act in 2006. In this essay, I speak from my position as one of the co…
Áanzho Ha’shi ‘Dał’k’ida’, ‘Áá’áná’, ‘Doo Maanaashni’
Memory, re-membering, oral history and critical recovery are pillars of a Ndéi decolonization and self-determination process in indigenous peoples’ rancherías along the Lower Rio Grande River and Texas-Mexico border. The goals of this process are to dismantle the U.S. border wall bifurcating the customary lands of indigenous peoples; to reclaim dispossessed lands; and to revitalize Ndé ways of life in autonomy and self-governance. In the Ndé lang…
Place and Perspective in the Shadow of the Wall
Research Article| April 01 2013 Place and Perspective in the Shadow of the Wall: Recovering Ndé Knowledge and Self-Determination in Texas Margo Tamez Margo Tamez Margo Tamez (Kónitsąąíí Cúelcahén Ndé) is an assistant professor of Indigenous studies at the University of British Columbia. Research interests include decolonization, indigeneity, human rights, and Ndé knowledge systems as explored in the recent publication "The Texas-Mexico Border Wal…
Indigenous Women’s Rivered Refusals in El Calaboz
This essay examines how Indigenous peoples trouble nation-state borders, and how the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and official histories, affect the community of El Calaboz, Texas. It showcases Ndé epistemology and ways of remembering through rivering ancestral relationships to place, language, and family. Through concrete knowledge-making sites like weaving, storytelling, and pictographs, the essay demonstrates an Indigenous refusal of …
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