Homeland Security to seize Lipan Apache lands

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Thursday, December 6, 2007

 

Urgent Alert: Homeland Security to seize Lipan Apache lands

Press Release: For Wide Distribution

Margo Tamez (Lipan Apache, Jumano Apache)

December 6, 2007

 

Chertoff Announces Occupation of Land Title Holders Refusing to Sign

NSA Waivers

 

Dear supporters of the Lipan Apache Women Title Holder Defenders:

 

Ahi'i'e for all your wonderful outpouring of support to our elders of

El Calaboz. We need your help on our continuing efforts to protect

and keep safe the elders of our struggle against U.S. tyranny.

 

Today we have serious news to share and to update on the situation

unfolding in the traditional lands of the Lipan Apache communities of

the Mexico-US militarized border region.

 

Chertoff announced plans to force occupation of South Texas families

who refuse to allow the government access to their lands. See the

story in the Houston Chronical

https://connect.wsu.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?

URL=https://connect.wsu.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?

URL=http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/5357676.html

 

United States occupation of South Texas people refusing Homeland

Security access to their traditional lands is EMINENT. 'Refusers'

such as the Lipan Apache Land Grant Women Defense, led by my mother,

Dr. Eloisa Garcia Tamez (Lipan Apache, Basque-Apache), in the

rancheria of El Calaboz, have frustrated the NSA, Border Patrol and

Army Corps of Engineers officials for over two years, and

increasingly in the last two months.

 

Using tactics such as public announcements over the news service,

used as intimidation and as psychological warfare--NSA/Chertoff

exploits the press to prepare the nation to invade South Texas--and

indigenous peoples--who are being 'architected as the perpetual

enemies of the United States. This is an old story of genocidal

tactics and militarization.

 

This scenario played out before, in 19th century, in 20th century.

And now the 21st, my mother, the 'child of lightning ceremony', is

fighting for the vestiges of our traditional lands. My mother, and

the ancestors of 'the place where the Lipan pray', have been critical

to our land-based struggle, and they are leaders in an Apache

struggle in the Mexico-US International Boundary region. Our elder

voices direct us in a huge role that Apache people will play in

standing up against tyranny of the settler society. We cannot do this

without the support and the solidarity of our indigenous sisters and

brothers who are also at the forefront of the 21st century battles

for our rights as indigenous peole with ancient footprints on this

land.

 

My mother, at this stage of our community-based struggle, indicates

that she is prepared to receive national and international support

for our small community on the peripheries of U.S. empire. She wrote

a comment on the page of this newsstory out of Houston, Texas.

 

Today we are submitting our comments to the Environmental Impact

Statement authorities, and parallel to that we are submitting an

indepth case study of our histories under U.S., Mexican, Spanish,

Vatican and corporate domination to the International Indian Treaty

Council shadow report to be submitted to the U.N. Convention on the

Elimination of Racism and Racial Discrimination in December.

 

Please read Chertoff's public announcement to occupy South Texas

oppressed groups, and pass on WIDELY to all networks. I'm going to

attache the CENSORED story, so new folks to our struggle can become

educated rapidly. In peace in the struggle against tyranny.

 

Margo Tamez

(Lipan Apache, Jumano Apache)

 

https://connect.wsu.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?

URL=https://connect.wsu.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?

URL=http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2007/11/urgent-call-for-help-

homeland-security.html

Urgent Call for Help from Lipan Apache Women Defense

 

https://connect.wsu.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?

URL=https://connect.wsu.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?

URL=http://www.kpfk.org/index.php?option=com_content%2526task=view%

2526id=3574%2526Itemid=79%2526lang=en

American Indian Airwaves interview of Margo Tamez: " The

Militarization of Indigenous Women's Lives at the Mexico-U.S.

International Boundary. "

 

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