11/14/2021
I am eager to acknowledge every day, that I am on the
traditional territory of the Chumash and Salinan peoples.
For more than five hundred years, Native communities across the Americas have demonstrated resilience and resistance in the face of violent efforts to separate them from their land, culture, and each other. They remain at the forefront of movements to protect Mother Earth and the life it sustains. Today, corporate greed and federal policy push agendas to extract wealth from the earth, degrading sacred land in blatant disregard of treaty rights. Acknowledgment is a critical public intervention, a necessary step toward honoring Native communities and enacting the much larger project of decolonization and reconciliation.
May we all move forward with honoring the indigenous peoples of the Earth and respect the land we are on.
May our hearts be open and our steps be light upon the soil.
