Eloisa Garcia Tamez

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Eloisa Garcia Tamez (b. March 2, 1935) was born in rancheria El Calaboz (San Pedro de Carricitos Land Grant, Spain 1763) and is a co-founder of the Lipan Apache Women Defense/Strength to protect sacred sites, burial grounds, archaeological resources, ecological bio-diversity, and way of life of the indigenous people of the Lower Rio Grande, North America.

Her legal battle against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security/Michael Chertoff to stop the construction of the Mexico-U.S. border wall is documented in the constitutional rights case, U.S. Department Homeland Security, U.S. Army Corps Engineers and U.S. Customs Border Patrol v. Eloisa Garcia Tamez.

She is the direct descendent of Lipan Apache, Chiricahua Apache and Basque people of the Lower Rio Grande Valley.

At the age of 15, Eloisa Garcia Tamez led the rancheria of El Calaboz in de-segregation of public schools in Cameron County.

Her class action legal suit against the United States has been documented by scholars, news journalists, writers and activists interested in the ancient, colonial and present-day histories of Apache women leaders of the Mexico-U.S. border region.

Her challenges to racial discrimination and structural violence against the indigenous people of the region positions her as a Native American, female leader of the 21st century.