Category Archives: Gullah/Geechee Fishing Association
Saving a Southern Treasure: Protect the Blake Plateau
The Blake Plateau is a cultural, spiritual, historical, and ecological treasure. It serves as the final leg of the Middle Passage, the seafaring route by which our ancestors—as enslaved West and Central Africans—were transported to America. It should be recognized as the ancestral graveyard of our enslaved relatives who did not survive its crossing.
Gullah/Geechee Fighting Against Golf, Gates and Genocide
This on-going battle to protect historic St. Helena Island, South Carolina from succumbing to the fate of numerous Black communities in which the people are displaced for the purpose of others’ recreation and plots and plans of genocidal gentrification should stand as an example of what came be done when people not only respect the law but when they respect the cultural heritage communities that they come into.
Gullah/Geechee September 2024 Celebrations
As we fall into fall, it’s time to celebrate cultural heritage continuation with the native Gullah/Geechees y’all! Cum fa jayn we een SC!
Gullah/Geechee Agroculture & CREATE Day 2024
Jayn we fa “Gullah/Geechee Agroculture & Gullah/Geechee CREATE Day” pun historic St. Helena Island SC!
Gullah/Geechee Nation Appreciation Week 2024
Ef hunnuh waan kno de trut bout who webe, hunnuh hafa jayn dem who be Gullah/Geechee! Jayn we fa “Gullah/Geechee Nation Appreciation Week 2024” fa “Gullah/Geechee Tekin a Stand and Healin de Land!”
Gullah/Geechee Makes a Splash at Capitol Hill Ocean Week 2024!
Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation (www.QueenQuet.com) and Founder of the Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition has been engaged in CHOW for several years. She once again made a splash in Washington, DC on and off stage during CHOW Week 2024.
Queen’s Chronicle: Living to Heal Gullah/Geechee Land
“Do LAWD! Please don le mi libin be een vain!” I have cried out and stated many times in my life which can often seem like the “tedious journey” that I have sung about hundreds to thousands of times. I give thanks in those moments when GOD sends that one person to tell me how something I said or did changed their lives or was just what they needed at a critical moment. That’s when I know that GOD is confirming that my life’s work is of value to somebody. That makes my soul sing “Feel Like Journey On!” Hallelujah!
Celebrating de Gullah/Geechee and Healing de Land & Family
March is “Gullah/Geechee Volunteer Month” and “Women’s Herstory Month.” Those that are interested in celebrating both and participating in events that are centered on healing can join Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation on historic St. Helena Island, SC in the Gullah/Geechee Nation for “Gullah/Geechee CREATE Day” and again as she provides the keynote at the College of William & Mary in Virginia.
Celebrate Living Black History in the Gullah/Geechee Nation!
empowerment and land ownership of Gullah/Geechee citizens. We welcome the entire African Diaspora to come out and join us in doing so at these events that will be held during February 2024.
Gullah/Geechee SEA & ME: Celebrating and Saving Coastal Legacy
The Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition has always centered its work on ensuring that Gullah/Geechee land would be in Gullah/Geechee hands for generations to come. When we first started our work over two decades ago, I didn’t realize how true “De wata bring we and de wata gwine tek we bak.” would be. However, it is due the water’s consistency that we have witnessed the erosion of our coastline and also the rising of new collaborations within the Gullah/Geechee Nation.