Eniplace PODCAST

Land Acknowledgement
Ancestor Acknowledgement
by host, Robyn Nisbet.
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I grew up on the traditional homelands of the Tataviam, Gabrieño-Tongva, Kizh, and Chumash people. I spent a good amount of my childhood in Ojai. I was imprinted by the people and practices of the Krishnamurti school that I attended growing up and by the mountains, the Valley Oaks and Live Oaks. I was also imprinted by a greater American ideology, which is glaring when traveling to other lands. I hold these paradoxes in my body.   

I returned to the Ojai Valley in 2023 having traveled to many places including some of my ancestral homelands. From my mother’s lineage, I am Ashkenazi Jewish. I like to say Hebrew. I am also a diverse mix of celtic and germanic peoples from both my mother's father's English side and my father's Scottish side.

I acknowledge the land I live on as unceded Indigenous land, the traditional homelands of the Chumash people.
I acknowledge the tremendous harm and violence that has historically and continues to take place on these lands against Indigenous people and people of African descent. I also acknowledge the harm and violence committed against many people who display difference in a country that is severely imprinted by its colonial origins.

I am deeply devoted to my path here on earth, and in this devotion, I am in an on-going inquiry of what it means to belong to both the earth and to Ènìyàn, human beings. This podcast serves as a platform for that inquiry.
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