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Margo's Interests
General
Breaking Chains, Disrupting Lies, Hearing stories in the kitchens of Nde' Nnee' and other indigenous mothers and grandmas...
Painting, shawls, fire, cold wind, tornados, caves...
Duke Sine' art-
http://www.firstpeople.us/pictures/art/odd-sizes/pt/Apache-Ceremony2-743x1070.jpg
Music
Nde' Holy Ground
Nde' Na ii'ee's
Blues
Spirituals
Southern Rock [de-colonial, i.e., not to be confused with 'Dixie''Confederacy' ...]
Dine' rap
Nde' and Nnee rap
Pow wow
Sacred Ground
Movies
"Dreams" Kurosawa--"The Blizzard"
http://www.aisb.org/~ddj/dreams/
http://film.vtheatre.net/doc/dreams.html
New World Border. Jose Palafox.
http://store.gxonlinestore.org/newworldborder.html
"When Your Hands Are Tied" Mia Boccella
http://www.whenyourhandsaretied.org/index.html
Synopsis
“When Your Hands Are Tied
Approximate running time: 56 minutes
Format: Digital Video
"When Your Hands Are Tied" is an educational film that explores the unique ways in which young native people are finding to express themselves in the contemporary world while maintaining strong traditional lives.
Since native youth do not often see reflections of themselves or their communities in mainstream media, we wanted to make a film that features contemporary native kids and role models who are finding exciting and positive ways to direct their lives. We also wanted young people to learn the importance of self-motivation in combination with traditional teachings to help prepare for the challenges of everyday life.
Some of the people we meet are:
Navajo rappers, who rap in English and in Navajo, with a mission to communicate to young people the importance of embracing mainstream culture and education as well as their own native languages, customs and traditions.
Navajo punk rock musicians, whose style is Native American Punk-Rock or “Alter Native” with strong sociopolitical messages about government oppression, relocation of indigenous people, eco-cide, genocide, domestic violence and human rights.
Apache Skate Boarders, who through their travels across the country, have learned about filmmaking, photography, and self worth. They have also learned how to carry the message of who they are and where they come from as they pursue their own individual goals.
The Governor of Nambe Pueblo, an avid dancer started a break-dance team to help kids stay active and healthy. The break-dancers come from many tribes around the southwest and are encouraged to participate in their traditional dances at home.
Television
Unplugged in '97 for good
T.V. will never show you this:
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.physics.unlv.edu/~jeffery/astro/earth/orbital_debris.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.physics.unlv.edu/~jeffery/astro/earth/earth.html&h=1280&w=1280&sz=258&hl=en&start=6&sig2=G6YYQohTrMdzTD0OjiO19Q&um=1&tbnid=8mGedxwL2KiptM:&tbnh=150&tbnw=150&ei=r6nHR8OgPIaWigGU46iQDg&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dearth%2Bdebris%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN
Books
Stories of Nde' Lipan elders, by Eloisa Garcia Tamez
Stories of Nde' Jumano elders, by Enrique Madrid
Raven Eye, by me
Naked Wanting, by me
Umskapi Pikani stories of Modoc women, by Jody Pepion
The Militarization of the U.S.-Mexico Border: Low Intensity Conflict Doctrine Come Home. Timothy Dunn
Heroes
Eloisa Garcia Tamez, mom,
http://youtube.com/watch?v=SQ1OZMUWGwM
Jose Emiliano Cavazos Garcia , grandpa
Luis Carrasco Tamez, dad
Zulema Carrasco Vera, aunty
Teresa Leal, sister
Lozen
Hatti Tom
Goyahtle' --[Geronimo]
MPH
Lori Riddle, sister
About me: At a small and weary kitchen table
I grew up
watching and listening closely
to my mother
as she made tortillas Apache style:
thick, cooked with some brown spots--
the scent of warm bread cooking on the stove fire
putting them carefully on the iron griddle--
Her arms and hands threading the air
back and forth back and forth
small beads and pearls of sweat
trickling down her cheek
when she made bread
when she made our bread
she made our life
and she told me a thousand stories of her life
and the lives of grandparents and ancestors
in the kitchen the ancestors galloped in
on their old Indian ponies and gathered
around my girl-child body
my spirit sometimes frail in the storms
pelting the hail of a boss called 'racist hate'
my mom kept making stacks of tortillas
talking to me about her frustrations, repressed and snubbed out dreams, her palpable fears of violence from 'them', the wall builders. She had
dreams untapped and her rising anger turned into foods
bubbling and hissing in kettles and iron skillets
on the fire of her stove
"The Apache warriors, she'd refer to, in her blood, and transfused to me, tells me make this treadmill 'stop!"
'Ay! Chihuahua!' [Apache warrior and war cry] she'd say in both english and spanish, I remember
the cracking in her voice, forcing open the wedges of her cavern-belly
throwing out spirits alive into my hands, my eyes, my heart
my memory
of mom, Chata--named after Chato the fierce warrior
known throughout southern Nde' lands
stolen and re-named 'Mexico', 'Texas', 'U.S.', 'Canada'
Chata the Nde' shimaa
fighting for the Nde' shimaa shinii
Athapaskan Mother Lands (T'Nde', Nnee', Nde' Shimaa Ha'tii' Shini')
We Honor Native Women Everyday as We Begin and End... My Prayer to Ussen
Is for the Healing of the Center of Our Culture--
Strong and Beautiful Native Women...
2/22/08
I found it in Photobucket. com when I saw it I felt it was appropriate for the things that are happening. One little battle at time. Many good blessing for you and your family.
Gozhoo da go tee' joy all around you Heidi... keep singing keep singing so bright... i'm putting your 'war' song on next until...enjoy 'blackfire' song to save the sacred peaks of the Athapaskan people... margo
Dropping off the love light sooooo bright you need sunglasses to go about your day.. :) Blessings of a light filled and peacefull transition into the new world my friend..
Billy Joe, Snow is melting... Mother rested and is re-energized She quakes and quakes as she re-awakens from her winter rest... The relatives from Mexico called to say that the earthquakes are her voice saying 'enough! time for action'. The lunar eclipse on the day of the earthquakes confirmed Mother's reflectivity--to star matter. And star matter's reflectivity back to us here. Southern Nde' folks are interested in face to face community2community sit downs.
