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On Tuesday, October 28, 2008, join your host, J. Kehaulani Kauanui for an interview with warrior woman Margo Taméz (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 Taméz and her mother, Eloisa G. Taméz, founded the group in response to the U.S. 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 U.S. 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 U.S., with human rights obligations established in international law. Taméz 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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