Tag Archives: Gullah/Geechee Nation
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.
Gullah/Geechee NFL Film Nominated for 4 Emmys!
Emmy Winning Director & Producer Osahon Tongo joined forces with film consultant and producer, Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation to truly make movie magic! NFL 360 premiered “The Chief Who Walked the Sea” as a Black History Month feature film. This film salute to legendary Gullah/Geechee football great and activist, the late Jim Brown of St. Simon’s Island in the Gullah/Geechee Nation starred an all Gullah/Geechee cast. “The Chief Who Walked the Sea” is now a 4x Emmy nominated film!
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!
Gullah/Geechee Gal Forging a Life
Win mi staat shoutin pun de clay colored wid de blood of enslaved ancestas, mi cudda feel um dey dey da shout tuh. Hallelujah ta GAWD fa freedum! I felt ancestral souls freed from that place as I felt my soul feel free to be holistically and wholly Gullah/Geechee in Union, SC!
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.