I am Meghan Norean Peterman, child of Rhona and Kevin, with ancestry woven back through Celtic and Germanic lands.

As a white-body settler on colonized lands, I acknowledge with respect and give thanks to the Susquehanock and Haudenosauneega Confederacy on whose land I was born and raised. Today I live as a visitor upon the lands of the Bengali people in Kolkata, India. I offer deep reverence and gratitude to these people as well as the Adavasi tribes who were here before as the original stewards of the land and their descendants who continue to steward the land today. I ask for their permission to be a guest on this land and to be in right relationship with this land. 

If you are a guest or settler upon the land, I invite you to learn about the indigenous community of the land you currently occupy on Native Land and contact the leaders to learn how you can contribute reparations to their community, by way of a land tax.