[nativestudies-l] Tuesday on "Indigenous Politics: From Native New England and

[jkauanui at wesleyan.edu]

Indigenous Politics: From Native New England, and Beyond
Tuesdays 4-5pm EDT/1-2pm PST/10-11amHST
88.1 fm, Middletown, CT
Listen online LIVE: www.wesufm.org
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On Tuesday, October 28, 2008, join your host, J. Kehaulani Kauanui for an
interview with warrior woman Margo Tamez (Lipan Apache and Jumano-Apache)
co-founder of the Lipan Apache Women Defense/Strength - an Indigenous
People's Organization of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous
Issues that was formed to protect sacred sites, burial grounds,
archaeological resources, ecological bio-diversity, and way of life of the
indigenous people of the Lower Rio Grande, North America. Margo Tamez and
her mother, Eloisa G. Tamez, founded the group in response to the US
Department of Homeland Security's attempt to force their surrender of
hereditary lands in El Calaboz, Texas for the US/Mexico border
wall. The US department of Homeland Security had voided over 35 federal
laws, including environmental laws and laws protecting American Indian
cultural and burial places. However, South Texas Apache women took the
lead, in December 2007 in organizing the most persistent, and to
date most successful, constitutional law case against the United States
Army, US Customs Border Patrol and the US Department of Homeland
Security.  On October 22, 2008, Tamez delivered testimony in Washington,
DC before the Organization of American States (OAS)Inter-American
Commission on Human Rights.  The Commission examines and monitors
compliance by member States of the OAS, including the US, with human
rights obligations established in international law.  Tamez will explain
to us how this crisis came about and how she is working to protect the
lands of her people from being divided in a way that result in
relocation-a forced Indian removal that would constitute a 21st century
genocide.
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Seasons One & Two & Three now archived online:
www.indigenouspolitics.com
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"Indigenous Politics" is syndicated weekly on Pacifica-affiliate stations:
WNJR, 91.7 FM, "Washington & Jefferson College Radio" in Washington, PA,
and  WETX-LP,  105.3 FM,  "The independent voice of Appalachia," which
includes a region encompassing 13 states and 20 million people: east
Tennessee, southwest Virginia, west Kentucky, all of West Virginia, most
of Pennsylvania, south New York, west Maryland, west North Carolina, west
South Carolina, north Georgia, north Alabama, and northeast Mississippi.
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J. Kehaulani Kauanui, Ph.D. is an associate professor of American Studies
and Anthropology at Wesleyan University. For more information, see:
http://jkauanui.faculty.wesleyan.edu/

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