Lipan Apache Band of Texas, Inc.

 

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 Castro Romero, Jr. General Council Chairman of Lipan Apache Band of Texas, Inc. 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

Congratulations to Zettie Cavazos (on the right in the photo) who is now our 2008 - 2009 Lipan Apache Band of Texas Princess. Crystal Lozano our 2006 - 2008 Princess represented our Band with dignity and honor, Lipan Apache Band of Texas was proud to have her as the Princess. Picture

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 “2010 Census”

Please get the word out, the 2010 Census will be mailed out February 1, 2010 and this will be the last official US GOVERNMENT count of our people for the next ten years.

  

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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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Intertribal Organization

Preserving culture through education!

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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.
Read More...or click here for PDF1 * PDF2
Carlisle Barracks Banner * Carlisle Indian Industrial School Research Pages
Dickinson Magazine  Wednesday, July 1, 2009

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Carlisle Indian School Welcoming

Rudy S. Perez, Vice Chairman of the Lipan Apache Band of Texas and members are welcomed by the members of Dickinson College, Dr. Jacqueline Fear-Segal, Carlisle Indian School, and Cumberland County Historical Society to attend the “Lost Ones” repatriation and ceremonial rights.

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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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