Indigenous Women’s Rivered Refusals in El Calaboz

This essay examines how Indigenous peoples trouble nation-state borders, and how the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and official histories, affect the community of El Calaboz, Texas. It showcases Ndé epistemology and ways of remembering through rivering ancestral relationships to place, language, and family. Through concrete knowledge-making sites like weaving, storytelling, and pictographs, the essay demonstrates an Indigenous refusal of dispossession in the borderlands.