Posted on 05/13/2014 11:22:54 AM PDT by 11th_VA
The Gullah/Geechee Nation exist from Jacksonville, NC to Jacksonville, FL. It encompasses all of the Sea Islands and thirty to thirty-five miles inland to the St. Johns River.
On these islands, people from numerous African ethnic groups linked with indigenous Americans and created the unique Gullah language and traditions from which later came Geechee.
The Gullah/Geechee people have been considered a nation within a nation from the time of chattel enslavement in the United States until they officially became an internationally recognized nation on July 2, 2000. At the time of their declaration as a nation, they confirmed the election of their first head pun de boddee-head of state and official spokesperson and queen mother. They elected Queen Quet, Chieftess and Head-of-State for the Gullah/Geechee Nation.
Mission
To preserve, protect, and promote our history, culture, language, and homeland and to institute and demand official recognition of the governance (minority) rights necessary to accomplish our mission to take care of our community through collective efforts which will provide a healthy environment, care for the well beings of each person, and economic empowerment.
Goals
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WE will preserve, maintain, and reclaim ALL elements of our homeland which will FOREVER be our base of existence as we carry out these goals. With these goals in mind, Gullah/Geechee people take formal recognition of their nation and their human right to self-determination within the context of their minority governance rights, and thereby, the Gullah/Geechee Nation Wisdom Circle Council of Elders, by its hands, spirit and soul undertakes the task of creating and ratifying the first Constitution of the Gullah/Geechee Nation.
With apologies to Longfellow:
By the shores of Gullah-Geechee
By the shining Atlan-tic-Sea,
Stood the wigwam of...
... Queen Quet?
I have some computer skills. Maybe I should make like Hardisan and create a nation too!
I don’t know about that, but last week I was in SC, and the price of baskets they were selling, must have included ‘reparations’ as well. They are crazy to ask $75 for a basket.
Sweet grass baskets are expensive, but they’re pretty time consuming to weave as well.
The Gullah are low-country blacks. Once you get away from the cities, they’re pretty good folks.
This is a hoot, but VERY politically incorrect:
http://www.amazon.com/Gullah-Breath-Carolina-Country-RECORD/dp/B000Z9WDOW
Nope. No Voodoo or Santeria in the Low Country; have to go to south Florida or Louisiana for that. They’re mostly good Christians
Wow who knew as a (white/Euro ancestry) person living in Wilmington, N.C. I now live in another nation (and why I have I never heard this before)?
Those are locally made according to old traditions. The artisans have to have licenses and permits. If you want a cheap, Chinese-made basket, go to Pier 1.
Give 'em some credit for making an attempt to earn some money, rather than insisting upon handouts. I'll bet they were pretty much self-sufficient until the explosion of goobermint "programs".
And maybe their culture expects you to haggle over the price?
She must be a relative of Michelle Obama’s. I remember reading that her ancestry goes back to the Gullah peoples who lived off shore along the East Coast of NC. SC. GA. I didn’t realize it goes all the way south to Jacksonville, fl.
So let me get this straight . . . when the "indigenous peoples" say they want all non-indigenous people out, they mean only the white ones? Non-white people who don't belong here get to stay? The same way all non-whites, indigenous or not, get local control and a society based on their traditions while white people have to be mid-nineteenth century European materialist intellectuals?
I wonder what old Karl Marx would have made of this Marxism of "blood and soil?"
Hey! American Blacks may have been radicalized till they're to the Left of Pol Pot, but Gullah is not lame!
I suggest you get ahold of some American folklore anthologies and read some stories. Joel Chandler Harris also recorded several.
I guess they want recognition to open a casino ...
That has been discussed, but they have no land to speak of. More likely they just want the permanent welfare that the federal government currently gives to Native Americans...
That and to join hands with the "gays" in this country. And to support separation of church and state (for white people only). And to end the Cuban embargo. And every other leftist cause in history, however inane and little-related to the actual Gullah people. Because that's how the Left works.
I'll bet their biggest worry is global warming.
“That and to join hands with the “gays” in this country. And to support separation of church and state (for white people only). And to end the Cuban embargo. And every other leftist cause in history, however inane and little-related to the actual Gullah people. Because that’s how the Left works. I’ll bet their biggest worry is global warming.”
These people (the “Ramapough tribe”) aren’t typical leftists (outside of the welfare); these people literally live as though government doesn’t exist outside of the monthly check. They hunt out of season, ride ATVs on state park land where it is expressly prohibited (one was killed in a confrontation with park rangers a few years back stemming from this), and basically do as they please; many don’t finish high school and they are completely unassimilated.
Anyone recall a PBS kids show from about 20+ years ago called Gullah-Gullah Island?
Acording to Frederik Pohl, the Heechee nation is extinct.
Oh, wait a minute.
Never mind.
“Hmmmm .... Can they do this ???”
It worked out so well for Jefferson Davis and his buddies.
The people are interesting, yes but the typical documentary or special produced was dull.
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