8/16/2023 0 Comments Conspire meaning to breath outShe is an activist, currently residing in Pullman, Washington. On her father's side, she is related by blood to the Carrasco's of the Jumano Apache of West Texas. Margo Tamez is connected through blood on her mother's side to Lipan-Apache-Basque land grant communities of Calaboz, South Texas (formerly Nuevo Santander, and always Apacheria-the place where the Lipan pray, Tama ho' lipam). At the age of seven, she received advice from her mother to use the education of dominant culture in order to find ways to voice the people's struggles. Her parents were challenged to find community in an urban environment that pressed its hostilities, intolerance and injustices upon non-white groups. Raised in San Antonio, Texas during the Civil Rights Movement and growing up during the Vietnam era made lasting impacts on Tamez' sensitivity and responses to racism, inequity, and social justice. ( Jumano- Apache, Spanish) were born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley, married, and moved to urban areas to follow education and career pursuits. Her parents, Eloisa Garcia Tamez ( Lipan- Apache & Spanish Land Grant, Calaboz, Texas) and Luis Carrasco Tamez, Jr. Margo Tamez was born in Austin, Texas in 1962. This week's column is an interview with Margo Tamez, and next week I'll review her two books, Naked Wanting and the just released, Raven Eye. To come together, to be close enough to share the necessary, the intimate. I chose this title thinking of the Latin root of the word conspire, meaning to breathe together.
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