Tag Archives: St. Helena Library
Toxic Dangers Threaten Gullah/Geechee Nation Community Meeting To Be Held October 10th
The Atlantic Ocean has sustained the Gullah/Geechee people for hundreds of years. The African ethnic groups and indigenous Americans, who formed the Gullah/Geechee Nation, have kept their fishing and agrarian culture alive in spite of threats from coastal development, pollution and climate change.
Now the Gullah/Geechee Nation faces the existential threat of toxic chemicals being set free off the shores of their ancestral home in the South Carolina and Georgia Sea Islands.
Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Conferences 2018
These conferences are wonderful opportunities to engage in interactive activities and dialogues with people that live the Gullah/Geechee culture and learn first hand how they continue to keep their cultural heritage alive. You can also learn how you can be an active part of assisting in that process. The Gullah/Geechees encourage hunnuh fa jayn we fa yeddi who webe frum we!
Celebrate the Holy Days in Gullah/Geechee Ways!
Cum fa jayn de @GullahGeechee famlee een sum fun and ting fa de Holy Days een Chastun and pun St. Helena Islandt!
Queen Quet presents “De Gullah/Geechee Ooman an E Right ta Freedum!” on March 12, 2014
Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation (www.QueenQuet.com) returns home to St. Helena Island, SC on March 12, 2014 at the St. Helena Branch Library at 6 pm. This is part of the “Gullah/Geechee Land & Legacy World Tour“ and the “Gullah/Geechee Living Legacy Series.” This series is co-sponsored by the St. Helena Branch Library …
St. Helena Island Educates Through Festivals Focused on Gullah/Geechee History & Traditions
by Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation (www.QueenQuet.com) Tenk Gawd fa St. Helena nayme fa de ladee. Tenk Gawd fa St. Helena whey de Gullah/Geechee be. Tenk Gawd fa St. Helena an holdin pun we land. Tenk Gawd fa St. Helena an e Sea Islandt sand. Tenk Gawd fa St. Helena an de wata …