On Land.
In my research and teaching, I am committed to recognizing and uplifting marginalized and minoritized voices and building respect and connection across difference.
It is with this commitment I acknowledge I live and work on unceded ancestral lands of Indigenous peoples, including the Onodagawa (Seneca Nation), part of the great Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy. The Seneca respectfully coexisted with the Shawnee and the Lenape (Delaware), who were forced from the east by violence committed by white settlers. This land was also home to the prehistoric cultures of the Adena, Hopewell, Monongahela, and Osage. I am deeply cognizant that my work here is possible only because of the cruel policies and values of genocide, slavery, racism, segregation, and the continued oppression of Indigenous people.
Though land acknowledgements are just words on a page, they are a start to honoring the history of the land, our relationships with it, and making visible the legacies of violence, displacement, migration, and settlement that bring us all to this moment. I invite you to join me in paying respect to the elders both past and present.
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