Margo Tamez

Margo Tamez (born 28 January 1962 in Austin, Texas, USA) is Hada'didla Nde' (“Lightning Storm People”), Konitsaii Nde'(“Big Water People”) and a citizen of Lipan Apache Band of Texas.

A scholar, poet, and human rights defender, she is recognized as an Indigenous ambassador to the United Nations who has represented the Konitsaaíí Ndé ("Big Water People") and Cúelcahén Ndé ("Tall Grass People") of Konitsaii gokiyaa ('Lipan Apache home land').

She was born and grew up in the territory of Lipan Apache peoples in South Texas, the Lower Rio Grande Valley and along the Texas-Mexico border. Tamez's 2007 work, Raven Eye, is considered the first Apache-authored literary work which fuses creative non-fiction, biography, poetry and criticism of the colonization and militarization of Indigenous peoples in the U.S.-Mexico border region.[1]

As an Indigenous human rights advocate, an educator, poet and critic, Tamez has made social and intellectual contributions to Indigenous communities in the United States, Mexico, and Canada, as well as to Indigenous teaching at college and university level. She is a social justice and human rights advocate and intellectual, focusing on U.S.-Mexico Indigenous peoples impacted by border bifurcations, treaties, war, conflict and militarization.[2]

Selected bibliography

Poetry and criticism

Anthologies

References

  1. ↑ Poetry Foundation. "Margo Tamez".
  2. ↑ Huang, Hsinya (2011). "Towards Transnational Native American Literary Studies". Comparative Literature and Culture 13 (2).

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