112 CHICANA/LATINA STUDIES 7:2 SPRING 2008 SPACE, POSITION, AND IMPERIALISM IN SOUTH TEXAS Dr. Eloisa García Tamez v. U.S. Secretary Michael Chertoff, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Border Patrol, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Margo Tamez (Lipan Apache/Jumano Apache) This work is part of a longer response and testimony to the United States Periodic Report of April, 2007, on the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racism and Racial Discrimination (CERD). The longer piece, with its supporting documents, was made on behalf of my mother, Dr. Eloisa García Tamez, and elder title holders of the San Pedro de Carricitos Land Grant of 1786 in El Calaboz Ranchería, South Texas, in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. The title holders, descendants of both Lhepa Nde’ (Lipan Apache) and Euskara (Basque) indigenous peoples, constitute a unique ethnic group of North America who are under direct threat by the United States of America National Security Agency, the U.S. Border Patrol, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. This commentary makes clear the visible policies, practices, and systems of racism and racial discrimination perpetrated by the United States against the Lipan Apache and Basque descent land grant title holders and indigenous women defenders of the sacred sites and burial grounds, culturally significant sites, agricultural fields, water rights, oral histories, traditional medicinal plants, and ecological economies related to flora, fauna, and mammalogy. 7.2.indb 112 4/24/08 3:16:52 PM