Lipan Apache Band of Texas

 

The Lipan Apache Band of Texas membership consist of 745 members and is composed of the Cúelcahén Ndé (People of the Tall Grass), Tú é diné Ndé (Tough People of the Desert), Tú sìs Ndé (Big Water People), Tas steé be głui Ndé (Rock Tied to Head People), Buií gł ŭn Ndé (Many Necklaces People), and Zuá Zuá Ndé (People of the Lava Beds) that have continuously lived in Texas prior to First Contact 1528.

 

The Lipan Apache Band of Texas geographic location encompasses a large part of Texas that extends from El Paso northeast to Lubbock extending southeast to Austin extending down south to Victoria extending southwest to Brownsville and back north to El Paso , Texas . The 2000 U.S. Census identified that many of our members lived in the nation’s poorest counties located on the Texas-Mexico Border ( Hidalgo , El Paso , and Starr Counties ) and California ’s (Kings, and Fresno Counties ) counties.

Daniel Romero, Jr. General Council Chairman of Lipan Apache Band of Texas, was of only one of three Native American persons in the United States selected to attend the 8 th Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, No. 74
 

Opinion No. GA-0339 Whether the Live Oak Treaty of 1838
on PDF

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Tule River PowWow September 17, 18, & 19, 2010 McCARTHY RANCH 32657 Reservation Road Porterville CA 93257

PDF Tule Flyer

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Margo Tamaz
Lipan Apache Women Defense (El Calaboz Rancheria) organized formally in the summer of 2007 as a result of a long battle for recognition, self-determination, and rights. More...
Lectures by Nde Spanish * English

LIPAN APACHE WOMEN DEFENSE (LAW-Defense)
An Indigenous Peoples Organization
lipanapachecommunitydefense.blogspot.com
https://mysite.wsu.edu/personal/mtamez/calaboz/default.aspx

LAW-Defense & Human Rights
http://lipanapachewomendefensehumanrights.blogspot.com/

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photo by Rick Seltzer
RICK SELTZER, Of The Patriot-News of Central Pennsylvania writes that on Saturday May 16th 2009  in the Carlisle Indian School Cemetery at Carlisle Barracks, Richard and Anita Gonzalez performed a prayer ceremony to bring one of their ancestors into the oral history of the Lipan Apache Band of American Indians.
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Carlisle Barracks Banner * Carlisle Indian Industrial School Research Pages
Dickinson Magazine  Wednesday, July 1, 2009

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SAN CARLOS APACHE TRIBE AND LIPAN APACHE WOMEN DEFENSE JOINT INTERVENTION, UNPFII 8TH SESSION, 2009

(CLICK) MICHAEL PAUL HILL (NNEE')
 

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