Margo Tamez Responds to Article, "Dozens arrested outside White House during oil sands protest," by Lee-Anne Goodman

25.9.11

Lipan Apache Women Defense ~~El Calaboz Rancheria, Rio Grande/Rio Bravo: Margo Tamez Responds to Article, "Dozens arrested outside White House during oil sands protest," by Lee-Anne Goodman

[Note: A large portion of this piece was originally posted on August 24,, 2011 to the NAIPC/North American Indigenous Peoples' Caucus List Serve]

Ha'shi?, Greetings.

On the issue of the Indigenous Peoples' efforts to resist further encroachment by exploitative extraction, in regards to the Tar Sands extractions in Indigenous Peoples' resistances to ongoing violations of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by the settler governments of Alberta and Canada, corporations such as TransCanada Corporation and Keystone XL, and the still generalized 'hints' to the impacts on Indigenous Peoples in traditional territories of Indigenous Nations across the (current-day) U.S., though specifically in the 'receiving' refinery sites in South Texas, Lower Rio Grande Valley, and northeastern Mexico.

I wish to weigh in on the still under-examined and under-analyzed impacts upon the Indigenous communities in (current day) South Texas and northeastern Mexico, where the Canadian, U.S., and Texas government officials, powerful dominating ruling elites, who are direct, lineal descendants of the settler society, with long-standing TEXAS-based policy-making in favor of a militarized and violent policing to repress the self-governance and recognition of Indigenous Peoples in Texas, as well as institutional organizations and certain 'citizen' groups, have been working vigilantly in support of TransCanada corporation, interest-holders (which, as of today also includes Hillary Clinton and some of her top aides along her career trajectory). Throughout July and August, 2011, in El Calaboz Rancheria, and traditional territories of Hada'didla and Konitsaii Nde', along the Texas-Mexico border, we who gathered for the "El Calaboz Rancheria Gathering on Indigenous Knowledge, Lands, Territories and Human Rights" witnessed and documented the construction of a mega-project infrastructure for the mega-transportation of the oil. Once refined in coastal S. Texas refineries, the oil will be transported to Mexico (and no doubt the other U.S.-controlled military 'base', Columbia). All this colossal planning, financing, and implementation measures carried out by and through the abuses of power by elites, did and continues to occlude the the grave and concrete reality of rule of law and human rights obstructions which the Keystone XL Pipeline and the Tar Sands projects have already carried out--by obscurring from the public, and negating their duties and responsibilities to enter into meaningful consultation relative to the lands and territories unceded by Indigenous Peoples, the laws regarding consent of Indigenous Peoples and regarding the illegal seizure, dispossession and taking of land from Indigenous Peoples for development projects, and to provide Indigenous Peoples' Free Prior and Informed Consent, the possibility of redress, restitution, and reparation for harms.

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