Category Archives: Gullah/Geechee Fishing Association
Gullah/Geechee Ancestral Voices Speak to Protect St. Helena Island from Destructionment
For three years running, the Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition, our attorneys from the South Carolina Environmental Law Center, the Coastal Conservation League, Penn Center and a cadre of additional partners have continued to stand up to Protect St. Helena Island. This year, two of our fighters that understood that we are warring against spiritual wickedness in high and low places crossed over in the realm of the ancestors. The first one that made his crossing was Rev. Kenneth Hodges of the “Gullah/Geechee Visitors Center” who pastored Tabernacle Baptist Church in Beaufort, SC where we unveiled the Harriet Tubman Monument. We stood together many times on each of these things and in each of these places. His words live on as he speaks from the grave concerning the St. Helena Island Cultural Protection Overlay District…
Gullah/Geechee CREATE Day with CLAM
Jayn een as the Gullah/Geechee Cultural Community Trust, Gullah/Geehee Sea lsland Coalition and Gullah/Geechee Legacy host Gullah/Geechee CREATE where we will open CLAM-Cultural Legacy Advancing Marine Science.
Saturday, September 6, 2025
12-3 pm
The Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve (GTM Research Reserve)
505 Guana River Road Ponte Vedra Beach, FL 32082
Celebrate 25 Years of Gullah/Geechee Self-Determination at Gullah/Geechee Famlee Day!
The Gullah/Geechee Nation and its elected Head-of-State and Chieftess, Queen Quet, will celebrate a historic milestone: the 25th Anniversary of the founding of the Gullah/Geechee Nation. To mark this momentous occasion, the public is “culturally” invited to attend Gullah/Geechee Famlee Day on Saturday, July 26, 2025, from Noon to 3 PM at the iconic Penn Center, Inc. on historic St. Helena Island, South Carolina, within the heart of the Gullah/Geechee Nation.
WaterSC Listening Session on Historic St. Helena Island, SC in the Gullah/Geechee Nation
A member of #WaterSC, Queen Quet, Chieftess and Head-of-State for the Gullah/Geechee Nation (www.QueenQuet.com), is hosting an April 8 #WaterSC listening session at Penn Center on historic St. Helena Island to spark conversations about the protection and management of water resources in South Carolina. This listening session is an opportunity for residents to speak with #WaterSC participants, learn about water use and planning in our state, and provide input on how South Carolina’s irreplaceable water resources can be best preserved for generations to come. Stop by and be a part of this important conversation!
Gullah/Geechee Creating Resilience
The Gullah/Geechee Saving Environmental Actions (SEA) & Marine Environment (ME) Program of the Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition has used a myriad of tools to enhance the resilience and sustainability of the Sea Islands in the Gullah/Geechee Nation.
Healin de Wata and Healin We: Victory and Vision of the Gullah/Geechee
In 2024, the Gullah/Geechee Nation’s leaders advanced the Gullah/Geechee Nation Sustainability Plan by successfully and effectively focusing on various mechanisms by which to protect the waters surrounding the Sea Islands and running through the region. This included focusing on the Savannah River, the Port Royal Sound, the St. Helena Sound, Ribault River and the Salkehatchie Rivers as well as the Atlantic Ocean in particular.
Gullah/Geechee CREATE Showcase
Jayn we fa de Gullah/Geechee CREATE Artwork Showcase on historic St. Helena Island, SC on Satdee, February 1, 2025 frum Noon ta 2 pm! The artists reception will begin at Noon sharp and attendees will get to vote on the best of show!
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!