Possible.
Their “internationally recognized nation” is just some guys who got together and proclaimed their new nationhood.
No more validity or legality than if you and I were to do the same.
That is a massive land grab attempt it sounds like to me.
In the late 50s when I was in college in Georgia I knew a guy from Savannah who knew some Gullah. Incomprehensible at first but once you knew the meanings you could make sense of the sounds.
Here's a Gullah Children's Story(4:51)
I've read about the Gullah off and on for the last few years, and if there's a land grab going on it seems to me it's the other way around.
Here's some info from Wikipedia - I know Wiki's not reliable, and the more I learn about it the worse it seems, but this seems about right as far as the land grab goes.
Civil War period
When the U.S. Civil War began, the Union rushed to blockade Confederate shipping. White planters on the Sea Islands, fearing an invasion by the US naval forces, abandoned their plantations and fled to the mainland. When Union forces arrived on the Sea Islands in 1861, they found the Gullah people eager for their freedom, and eager as well to defend it. Many Gullahs served with distinction in the Union Army's First South Carolina Volunteers. The Sea Islands were the first place in the South where slaves were freed. Long before the War ended, Unitarian missionaries from Pennsylvania came down to start schools for the newly freed slaves. Penn Center, now a Gullah community organization on Saint Helena Island, South Carolina, began as the very first school for freed slaves.
After the Civil War ended, the Gullahs' isolation from the outside world actually increased in some respects. The rice planters on the mainland gradually abandoned their farms and moved away from the area because of labor issues and hurricane damage to crops. Free blacks were unwilling to work in the dangerous and disease-ridden rice fields. A series of hurricanes devastated the crops in the 1890s. Left alone in remote rural areas in the Low country, the Gullahs continued to practice their traditional culture with little influence from the outside world well into the 20th Century.
Recent history
In recent years the Gullah people—led by Penn Center and other determined community groups—have been fighting to keep control of their traditional lands. Since the 1960s, resort development on the Sea Islands has threatened to push Gullahs off family lands they have owned since emancipation. They have fought back against uncontrolled development on the islands through community action, the courts and the political process.