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Ranchería El Calaboz
Lower Rio Grande Valley – Valle de Río Bravo, Parte Baja
Frontera Internacional de Texas-M éxico
Eloisa García Támez M argo Támez
Co-Fundadoras
Desde las comunidades tradicionales del Valle del Río Bravo, Parte Baja, le suplicamos
que suspenda la construcción de la muralla fronteriza y el uso ilícito de la Ley de
Expropiación de Tierras para Usos Públicos, que se está utilizando indebidamente para
la incautación de tierras en la frontera.
8. Consultar con líderes de los Pueblos Indígenas —tanto los líderes tradicionales
como los electos— de la región fronteriza Estados Unidos-México y dialogar a
través de los espacios tradicionales comunitarios acerca de alternativas a la
muralla fronteriza.
Respetuosamente,
LISTA DE FIRMANTES
• Dr. Eloisa García Támez, Lipan Apache, Associate Professor, Department of Nursing, University
of Texas Brownsville and Texas Southmost College; Co-Founder Lipan Apache Women Defense,
El Calaboz Ranchería, TX
• Margo Tamez, Lipan Apache, Jumano-Apache, Co-Founder Lipan Apache Women Defense, WA;
PhD Candidate, American Studies, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
• Carmelita (Tamez) Lamb and Family, Lipan Apache, Jumano-Apache, Bottineau, North Dakota
• M. ReBeca (Tamez) Drury and Family, Lipan Apache, Jumano-Apache, San Antonio, TX
• Daniel Castro Romero, Jr., Lipan Apache, Chairman, Lipan Apache Band of Texas, Inc., TX.
Official Representative of 745 Members
• Michael Paul Hill, Nnee’ (Chiricahua Apache), San Carlos Apache Tribe, Staff, Lipan Apache
Women Defense, AZ
• Enrique Madrid, Jumano-Apache, Council Member, Jumano-Apache Tribe of Texas, ( El Polvo)
Redford, TX
• Roberto Lujan, Jumano-Apache, Council Member, Jumano-Apache Tribe of Texas, Presidio-
Redford, TX
• John Wood, Cameron County Commission, Commissioner Precinct 2, Brownsville, TX
• Andrea Carmen, Yaqui, Executive Director, International Indian Treaty Council, AK
• Tia Oros, Zuni, Executive Director, Seventh Generation Fund, Arcata, CA
• Petuuche Gilbert, Indigenous World Association, United Nations NGO
• Teresa Leal, Ópata-Mayo, Proyecto Comadres Ambos Nogales, Sonora, Mexico
• Peter Schey, Founder and Director, Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law, CA
• Jose Matus, Yaqui, Director, Alianza Indigena Sin Fronteras/Indigenous Alliance Without
Borders, AZ
• Lori Riddle, Akimel O’odham, Co-Founder, Gila River Alliance for a Clean Environment,
Bapchule, Gila River Indian Community, AZ
• E. Elizabeth Garcia, Director, Coalition of Amigos in Solidarity & Action (CASA), TX
• Reverend Michael Seifert, Proyecto Digna, Inc., Brownsville, TX
• Juanita Valdez-Cox, Executive Director, La Union del Pueblo Entero (LUPE), TX
• Graciela Sanchez, Director, Esperanza Peace and Justice Center, San Antonio, TX
• Gloria A. Ramirez, Editor, La Voz de Esperanza, San Antonio, TX
• Bill Guerra Addington, Sierra Blanca Legal Defense, Sierra Blanca, TX
• James C. Harrington, Director, Texas Civil Rights Project, TX
• Ann W. Cass, Executive Director, Proyecto Azteca, San Juan, TX
• Benigno Pena, South Texas Immigration Council Inc., Brownsville, Texas
• Alejandro Siller-González, MACC, San Juan Diego Project, Immigrants and Migrant
Farmworkers/Inmigrantes y Campesinos Migrantes, San Antonio, TX
• Kriss Worthington, Berkeley City Council, Councilmember, Berkeley, CA
• Arnoldo Garcia, National Network for Immigrant & Refugee Rights, CA
• Pedro Rios, Director, US/Mexico Border Program, American Friends Service Committee, San
Diego CA
• Bradley Angel, Co-Founder and Executive Director Greenaction for Health and Environmental
Justice, San Francisco, CA
• Mark Sanchez, President, San Francisco Board of Education, San Francisco, CA
• April Cotte, Co-Founder, El Polvo Women’s Network, Redford, TX
• Kamala Platt, The Meadowlark Center, KS
• Noemi Lujan Perez, Raramuri, Chief Information Architect, Desert Runner, LLC, Washington,
D.C.
• Kirk L. Smith, MD, PhD, Frontera de Salud, Galveston, TX
• Bill Chandler, MIRA! Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance
• Paul "Pablo" A. Martinez, Apache, NM State Director, New Mexico LULAC Organization, Las
Cruces, NM
• Fabiola Torralba, Buena Gente y Nepantlera, Espereranza Peace and Justice Center, San
Antonio, TX
• Angelique Eagle Woman (Wambdi A. WasteWin), Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota Oyate, James E.
Rogers Fellow in American Indian Law, Associate Professor, University of Idaho College of Law,
ID
• Pablo Padilla Jr., Zuni, Attorney, Santa Fe, New Mexico
• Jeff Wilson, Assistant Professor, Environmental Science, University of Texas-Brownsville,
University of Texas Law Working Group (Texas-Mexico Border Wall), Brownsville, TX
• Aurora Vasquez, Senior Attorney, Advancement Project, Washington, D.C.
• Tom I. Romero, II J.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor, Hamline University School of Law
• Diana Webster, Minnesota Ojibwe White Earth, Attorney at Law, Redondo Beach, CA
• Monica Schurtman, Associate Professor and Clinic Supervisor, University of Idaho College of
Law, Idaho
• Jeffrey P. Shepherd, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of History, University of Texas at El Paso, TX
• Cynthia L. Bejarano, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, New Mexico State
University, NM
• Amy Kastely, Board Member, Esperanza Peace and Justice Center and Law Professor, St.
Mary's University, San Antonio, TX
• J. Kehaulani Kauanui, Kanaka Maoli/Native Hawaiian, Associate Professor American Studies
and Anthropology, Wesleyan University, CT
• Dr. Gail Perez, Ethnic Studies, Professor University of San Diego, San Diego, CA
• Emmy Perez, Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Texas-Pan American, TX
• Linda Zuniga-Heidenreich, Chair and Associate Professor, Women’s Studies Department,
Washington State University, Pullman, WA
• Martha Bárcenas, Pitzer College (Professor/Language and Culture Lab Director), Claremont, CA
• Madeline Newman Rios, Ríos Translations, Claremont CA
• Dorinda Moreno, Fuerza Mundial/Elders of 4 Colors 4 Directions, Santa Maria, CA
• Jeanne Chadwick, Cherokee, Publisher/Editor My Two Beads Worth~Indigenous News
• Ken Koym, Indigenous R & D Institute & A Maya Artifacts Museum Exchange Program, Austin,
TX
• Enrique Morones, Border Angels, San Diego CA
• Erik Tamez-Hrabovsky & Children: Hawk Mendoza (14), Milpa de Otoño Mendoza (13), Maura
Sun Tamez (9), Aria Mikassandra Reina Mundo Yellow-Basket-Weaver Tamez-Hrabovsky (5),
Lipan Apache, Jumano-Apache Pullman, WA
• Rosie Molano Blount, Chiricahua Apache, Del Rio, Texas and Pecos, Texas
• Emil LaRocque, Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, Tribal Scholarship Director, Turtle
Mountain Community College/Chippewa Rancher, North Dakota
• Yvonne 'Little Fawn' Oakes, Mohawk Nation
• Richard Oakes Jr., Mohawk Nation
• Leonard Oakes, Mohawk Nation Akwasasne, St. Regis, Canada
• Pura Fe Crescioni, Tuscarora Nation of North Carolina
• Bettina Escauriza, Guarani-Basque, Inter-Tribal Friendship House, Oakland, CA
• Looking Back Woman, Suzanne Dupree, Minneconjou Lakota, Cheyenne River Agency, Eagle
Butte, SD
• Abner Burnett, Attorney (Civil Rights), Rio Grande Valley, TX
• Isabel Sanchez, San Antonio, TX
• Lupita Santana, Pharr, TX
• Phillip H. Duran, New Mexico
• Jacqueline White, RN, PhD, Tucson, AZ
• Erika Gisela Abad, Chicago, Illinois
• Ryan Tauber, Educator, Brownsville Independent School District, and Member of Coalition of
Amigos in Solidarity & Action (CASA), Brownsville, TX
• Yajaira Fuentes-Tauber, Brownsville Independent School District, and Member of Coalition of
Amigos in Solidarity & Action (CASA), Brownsville, TX
• Judy Meuth, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Women's Studies, Washington State
University, Pullman, WA
• Cesar Alejandro (Filmmaker), President, Alexandria Films, El Paso, TX
• Iram and Molly Verduzco, Austin, TX
• Joe and Jane Krause, Pax Christi, Brownsville, TX
• Sandra Cisneros, Author, San Antonio, TX
• Yolanda Moreno, A Resource In Serving Equality (ARISE), Rio Grande Valley, TX
• Sanjuanita Martinez, Rio Grande Valley, TX
• Esperanza Berrones, Pharr, TX
• Maria Esparza, Rio Grande Valley, TX
• Hortencia Medina, Rio Grande Valley, TX
• Gary James, Ontario, Canada