As a member of the UT community, I acknowledge the Tsalagi people (now the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians) and the Tsoyaha people (Yuchi and Muscogee Creek), who are the Indigenous custodians of the land upon which we work and live, and recognize their continuing connection to the land, water, and air that UT consumes each day. As a land grant university, we collectively pay our respects to these Nations, and to their elders past, present, and emerging. I also know that land acknowledgements are a necessary but insufficient approach to indigenous liberation and sovereignty.