Eniplace PODCAST

Land Acknowledgement
Ancestor Acknowledgement
by host, Robyn Nisbet.
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I grew up on the traditional homelands of the Tataviam, Gabrieliño-Tongva, 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 taken place and continues to take place on the the lands of Turtle Island, 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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