You absolutely must visit the Caribbean specifically Antigua and Barbuda. As a Caribbean person who now calls Toronto home, all of your comments are very real and true. There are words which I would have grown up hearing my Grandmother use which are no longer part of the dialect in Antigua. Our sister island Barbuda even have a slightly different accent than we do as well. I can still remember watching Daughters of the Dust by Julie Dash which introduced me to the Gullah people. I was floored when I heard them speaking and said they sounded like us.... Of all the Caribbean islands Jamaica is one of the few that would have ethno linguist and documented the dialect as a language. Your upward mobility comment was very common as I was growing up and discouraging persons from speaking patois because of perceived class distinctions was also very common. Lastly the dialect of Antigua and Barbuda as well as Jamaica are two of the most similar in the region. Even though all the other islands have their own unique idiosyncracies....the two countries share a lot in terms of common syntax for words.
I would absolutely love to visit! Every time I meet anyone from one of the Caribbean I feel so connected by the sound of the language. Thanks for watching and providing such great insight.
Mi duh comot Oklahoma. From mi bawn mi yeddi de elder dem krak e teet inna Gullah. Inna dem time mi nah kno seh e ah language. Gud fuh see e ah carry forward. Una brighten mi day
You right. My family is from Savannah, Ga. Many of my aunties went to New York and Detroit. It was period of time call the Great Migration that took place, spread our ancestors up north.
My family is from st Helena and Beaufort they called themselves gullah…but when my grandparents moved from SC to Savannah we started to call ourselves geechee we lost most of the Gullah words over the generations but they always say my family sounds like we from the islands or New Orleans lol. I’m now trying to incorporate some of those Gullah words back in my daily vocab and get my family connected to the roots that birthed us
I'm glad you mentioned Florida. However they weren't just in Jacksonville, but they migrated to central Florida. Ocala is where they established one of their villages. My family and I moved from that area to south Florida, when I was seven. Although, I didn't speak the traditional language, I still had a strong dialect, which I didn't realize I had. People from the Caribbean thought I was from the islands. I didn't make the connection until later. On the other hand, blk Americans looked down on me because of it. So, I began to work on getting rid of my accent, due to being ashamed and wanting to fit in. As I started to dive into my heritage, I became proud and amazed at theier accomplishments. In our rich history, Geechee people freed ourselves from slavery through the Second Seminole War (aka Negro War of Florida), before the Emancipation Proclamation. Now I make sure I teach my kids our history.
Love this! It’s very interesting bc my family is from the NC leg of the corridor and though a lot of us descend from folks who mitigated from the Charleston area, we never used the term Gullah to describe ourselves and Geechee was used to describe us but as an insult.
I saw a clip of an old Denzel movie where he was in the military with some other Black soldiers and Geechee was used as an insult. Sounded like it was a way of calling someone “country”.
This was enlightening and affirming! I’m from Hampton County, and I and people I knew (even people from the islands) would call ourselves Geechee due to speaking a less creolized version of Gullah. In reality, you’re right: languages change. When I was coming up, my family did not identify as Gullah or Geechee, and many still don’t. As I grew up and got more exposure to what Gullah language and culture actually was, I realized that though we weren’t from the islands, we still had the language and culture. I say Geechee when I’m home, but I say Gullah or Gullah Geechee when I’m out of state to be more formal and raise awareness about the culture, the language, and the land. Question, though: Are people from Louisiana considered Geechee? Cause some of them sound mighty much like us, and love to eat rice too, 🤔
Thanks for watching and sharing your experience. It’s amazing how many people don’t identify still. You ask a really great question. I actually lived in Louisiana for 5 years and never met a native who identified as Geechee. They mostly identified as being creole. I may do a video on this!! Thanks for watching! 🫶🏽
Geechie came from Guale Indians that lived along the Ogeechee River, the term is Muskogean and not African Negro Indians of the Southeast "Cherokee Yamasee etc..." are of Mayan and not African descent All blacks originating in Africa is a myth that's been debunked decades ago
@GaryTisdaleFungkSta1 Interesting share. See from what I understand that myth that you stated has been debunked. The issue is the African label and not the continent. What do I mean by that? Not every tribe or melonated people called themselves African that's a colonizer's word to lump all of us into one pool. However, humankind [the original full human] migrated at different times in history and spread out. Therefore we populated the earth but originated from the continent. With that said I am doing genealogy and discovered I have Mayan blood which was originally melonated [black not spanish] and Lumbee Indian. Those Indians you talking about may not have been African but definitely were slaves.
My Great Grandfather migrated from Awendaw to Charleston before there was a bridge across the Cooper. He always used Geechee. Therefore, we all used Geechee as well. Growing up in and around Charleston, I heard Geechee far more than Gullah. As an adult, I use Gullah, Geechee interchangeably. When speaking to people outside of the corridor, I use Gullah Geechee in conjunction. Within the corridor, I still lean toward using Geechee because of how I was taught.
I'm from Savannah Georgia; roots are in South Carolina. Your accent reminds me of Grandma and aunties. I learned so much about my roots and culture from this channel. God bless Gullah Queen.
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Idk cause living in Alabama my mom’s side would say that we’re Gullah and my dads side up in Pennsylvania say we’s Gullah too. Moms side says back in the day nem came from Georgia and my dads side says we came from South Carolina. So both say Gullah🤷🏿♂️ . But talking to ppl online I always gotta add that disclosure cause ppl forget that many ppl left those areas
Im from florida but my grandma on my dad side from south carolina in my great grandma on my mom side from allendale south Carolina... We definitely gullah geechee
Savannah, Georgia Gullah Geechee but I were called Geechee first in prison about 20 something years ago. I didn’t know what Geechee was. But they said the way I talk I knew I was from Savannah, Georgia and they called me Geechee
It's like that here in Beaufort county, the islands (St Helena, Daufuskie, lady's) here have a more pronounced dialect. But I'll say the ancestors were very Geechee. They used all the original language. But we all kinda just said we were Geechee.
Very good explanation, Dr. Berry. You are absolutely right about the difference in Gullah and Geechie. I was born in Orangeburg S.C. and I noticed while growing up. I spoke to people from Eutawville, Holly Hill, St. George, Ridgeville, Monks Cornner ect. It was a little harder to under stand them because they spoke with their mouth closed. The words were the same as Gullah but they were dragging the words, so it sounded different. The Geechie people in South Carolina speaks very fast; while the Gullah speaks slower. I went to a primary school in Eutawville from 2nd through 8th grade between 1968-1975. I had a difficult time understanding these people in Eutawville, they are Geechie and they spoke extremely fast.. My mother and father are Gullah. My last name is Ravenell and we are originally from Charleston South Carolina. My mom and dad moved to Orangeburg County before I was born..!!!!
My wife is from Orangeburg, and I could feel something familiar about both sides of her family. I knew there were Gullah people in Orangeburg, but something about the way her family socialized made me wonder - that and some of their last names and phrases they used. Last year, I finally did the research, and yes, they are originally from Charleston and the Sea Islands on both sides. She first thought I been a li too proud about being from the Lowcountry: **suckteeth** she Geechee too, lol!
Growing up, was taught that Geechee was the people and Gullah was the language. Furthermore, true Gullah was only spoken around people in community because the elders did not want others especially “massacre dem” to gain understanding of the language. This was done as a form of protection and preservation of the community. This resulted in variations from community to community with those in the smaller areas and outer islands having a more “authentic” variation. Geographically, we were taught the true Geeshies and Gullah was from Atlantic Beach, SC down to Jekyll Island, GA. All others were not considered to be true Gullah Geechie. Yes Geechie was used to be negative as a way to say not as educated and not able to speak English correctly. This negativity was promoted by those who were not part of the culture and were kept out from the authentic culture. Unfortunately those who wanted to be accepted by outsiders they began to distance themselves from the title and Steven some the culture. In actuality those who were proud to be a part of the culture like several of my family members, they would call themselves Geechie before others did which shocked outsiders.
Downtown Charleston here. Its weird how contemporary historians have omitted the Guale Ogeechee history when its very well documented (Lengua De Guale 15-1600s Land Of The Gualean Speech) and in fact more documented than the Angola Gidzi theory. The only place I have found the Angola origin narrative is in the Denmark Vesey revolt pamphlet, and an 1830s book on the Seminole/Gullah Wars (I don't count Ambrose Gonzalez books because they're post reconstruction era publications). Whereas the Guale and Ogeechee evidence is much more well documented, yet its for the most part completely omitted from the modern linear historical narrative of the ppl which appears to be borderline conspiratorial. The Guale and Ogeechee tribes were enslaved and also others freely assimilated into the lowcountry colonies in mass in the late 1600s and early 1700s at the formation of the Charles Towne (San Jorge) colony, and if were talking linguistics, all one would need to do is use the same application that Lorenzo Dow Turner used, and apply it to the native languages/dialects of the lowcountry/west indies (which is the same region the gullah islands is the northernmost point of the west indian islands along with bermuda), and the connection would be evident. Even in his book he affirmed the connection on pg 307, but because modern historians have made ppl look left, they completely disregard looking right (it would also destroy the false concept that the lingua franca of the Americas was not the lingua franca of Africa pre transatlantic slave trade), when the ancestars always maintained that we been ya, and an honest look into the historical record proves them to have been telling the troot.
1) The people who were Aboriginal to that region did not have a written language so Europeans wrote words as the heard them in whatever phonetics they had 2) The first Europeans to visit were the Spanish
When Spanish people write words that we spelled with w in English they write gu so William is Guiermo in Spanish the word for war is guerra. Guerilla lit "war -small" So that the word "Guale" had a w like initial consonant. the final vowel in Guale. There is no reason to assume it would sound like the schwa uh sound if heard by a Spaniard most likely it be the sound in let or French Cafe with the accent mark
As far as trying to disconnect Gullah from Africa. There are languages in Africa that structurally are like Gullah that have the same pronouns and calques
I'm from Savannah, Ga. I'm identify in two ways, culturally I'll say I'm Gullah-Geechee. Location I say I'm Geechee. When I move to the Atlanta area, was the first time people started asking me if I was from the island. Now I understand. 😅
My family goes back in Savannah a few generations and then back from Hilton Head Island, Beaufort county plantations. To others I say Gullah Geechee but I remember people saying we were Geechee coming up. My mom worked in corporate jobs and said a lot of men would not take her serious because of her accent. She said she worked hard to change it. She was SUPER hard on me and would correct my pronunciation thinking I would be picked on. I love ❤hearing my grandma and cousins talk. I have not given up the recipes and food.
I grew up in Walterboro S.C. My ancestry DNA results says I'm 98 percent African. My family & friends from Walterboro are definitely Gullah Geechie, @@DrJessicaBerry
I discovered that I have family from Savannah, Georgia, and a lot of the traditions of superstitious beliefs that my family practices or believes come from the Gullah Geechee. My aunt made a joke saying that we must be a little bit of Geechee because we eat a lot of rice in my family. And ever since then, that made me do some studying and research, and I found the connections finding that on my father's side, we have family from Savannah, Georgia, which is a part of the Gullah Geechee Heritage corridor.
Savannah tribes are the real Geechies, also it's mostly the Boomers on up due to the propaganda of Roots think Gullah's are of African origin but the "Silent Gen" will tell you they're Indians cause they knew they're the Guale Indians and offshoots of the Yamasee Indians I moved to Savannah in the 70's when there were still alot of the elders around to tell you this I carry Creek/Gullah Blackfoot and Cherokee lineages Gullah/Guale Seminole Choctaw Apalachee Chickasaw Creek Natchez origin is with the Yamasee the Aboriginal Negro Tribes of the Southeast and our origin is here, not in Africa
So, your ppl didn’t want you speaking it outside the house. My pops didn’t want me speaking JC INSIDE the house. 😂 He really probably didn’t want me speaking it at all. Same reason. He felt it would hold me back later in life. I’m sure he knew I’d be speaking it outside because everyone around outside was speaking it. It’s like some of our ppl feel like knowing how to speak our creoles will negatively impact(seep inside) our english 😂. The more we respect our creoles, the more we’ll realize that knowing how to speak in these different ways is stimulating to the brain and that’s a good thing.
My mama nem from Rosemount & My dad folk from Jame'(Yes Jame' not James) Island!! An' I born & raise off Ruthledge Av/Downtown ....So I boff Gullah Geechee😂😂😂 &yes I only much did jus type dus in my Geechee accent so if ya can' read em & unda'stan den I can' help ya. #AuthenticGullahGeecheeGyalOffDaMuscle and we still guh eat crab PETA😜😝😋
You absolutely must visit the Caribbean specifically Antigua and Barbuda. As a Caribbean person who now calls Toronto home, all of your comments are very real and true. There are words which I would have grown up hearing my Grandmother use which are no longer part of the dialect in Antigua. Our sister island Barbuda even have a slightly different accent than we do as well. I can still remember watching Daughters of the Dust by Julie Dash which introduced me to the Gullah people. I was floored when I heard them speaking and said they sounded like us.... Of all the Caribbean islands Jamaica is one of the few that would have ethno linguist and documented the dialect as a language. Your upward mobility comment was very common as I was growing up and discouraging persons from speaking patois because of perceived class distinctions was also very common. Lastly the dialect of Antigua and Barbuda as well as Jamaica are two of the most similar in the region. Even though all the other islands have their own unique idiosyncracies....the two countries share a lot in terms of common syntax for words.
I would absolutely love to visit! Every time I meet anyone from one of the Caribbean I feel so connected by the sound of the language. Thanks for watching and providing such great insight.
I’ve always felt that you guys in Antigua sounded closer to Jamaicans than a lot of the other islands.
Mi duh comot Oklahoma. From mi bawn mi yeddi de elder dem krak e teet inna Gullah. Inna dem time mi nah kno seh e ah language. Gud fuh see e ah carry forward. Una brighten mi day
Its alot of gullah geechee descendants in ny. Alot of our grand n great grand are from the corridor.
You right.
My family is from Savannah, Ga. Many of my aunties went to New York and Detroit. It was period of time call the Great Migration that took place, spread our ancestors up north.
Yup, I'm from Jersey and my paternal grandparents come from the coastal Carolinas. My grandfather's family came directly from Charleston.
My family is from st Helena and Beaufort they called themselves gullah…but when my grandparents moved from SC to Savannah we started to call ourselves geechee we lost most of the Gullah words over the generations but they always say my family sounds like we from the islands or New Orleans lol. I’m now trying to incorporate some of those Gullah words back in my daily vocab and get my family connected to the roots that birthed us
I'm glad you mentioned Florida. However they weren't just in Jacksonville, but they migrated to central Florida. Ocala is where they established one of their villages. My family and I moved from that area to south Florida, when I was seven. Although, I didn't speak the traditional language, I still had a strong dialect, which I didn't realize I had. People from the Caribbean thought I was from the islands. I didn't make the connection until later. On the other hand, blk Americans looked down on me because of it. So, I began to work on getting rid of my accent, due to being ashamed and wanting to fit in. As I started to dive into my heritage, I became proud and amazed at theier accomplishments. In our rich history, Geechee people freed ourselves from slavery through the Second Seminole War (aka Negro War of Florida), before the Emancipation Proclamation. Now I make sure I teach my kids our history.
Descendant of the Gullah here !!! I know the creole too for the most part…keep this language alive !
Awesome!! Hunnuh bin ya
Very accurate! My family is from John’s Island, and we identify as Gullah, but Gullah Geechee when talking about our community to others.
That’s great to know! It’s like we know these things as natives but it’s like unspoken rules.
Love this! It’s very interesting bc my family is from the NC leg of the corridor and though a lot of us descend from folks who mitigated from the Charleston area, we never used the term Gullah to describe ourselves and Geechee was used to describe us but as an insult.
I feel like these days nc folk just say Gullah geechee
Wow! I’ve heard of Geechee as an insult or as a derogatory label. I’m glad that we are taking it back as positive historical identity.
I saw a clip of an old Denzel movie where he was in the military with some other Black soldiers and Geechee was used as an insult. Sounded like it was a way of calling someone “country”.
This was enlightening and affirming! I’m from Hampton County, and I and people I knew (even people from the islands) would call ourselves Geechee due to speaking a less creolized version of Gullah. In reality, you’re right: languages change.
When I was coming up, my family did not identify as Gullah or Geechee, and many still don’t. As I grew up and got more exposure to what Gullah language and culture actually was, I realized that though we weren’t from the islands, we still had the language and culture. I say Geechee when I’m home, but I say Gullah or Gullah Geechee when I’m out of state to be more formal and raise awareness about the culture, the language, and the land.
Question, though: Are people from Louisiana considered Geechee? Cause some of them sound mighty much like us, and love to eat rice too, 🤔
Thanks for watching and sharing your experience. It’s amazing how many people don’t identify still.
You ask a really great question. I actually lived in Louisiana for 5 years and never met a native who identified as Geechee. They mostly identified as being creole. I may do a video on this!!
Thanks for watching! 🫶🏽
Geechie came from Guale Indians that lived along the Ogeechee River, the term is Muskogean and not African
Negro Indians of the Southeast "Cherokee Yamasee etc..." are of Mayan and not African descent
All blacks originating in Africa is a myth that's been debunked decades ago
@GaryTisdaleFungkSta1 Interesting share. See from what I understand that myth that you stated has been debunked. The issue is the African label and not the continent. What do I mean by that? Not every tribe or melonated people called themselves African that's a colonizer's word to lump all of us into one pool. However, humankind [the original full human] migrated at different times in history and spread out. Therefore we populated the earth but originated from the continent.
With that said I am doing genealogy and discovered I have Mayan blood which was originally melonated [black not spanish] and Lumbee Indian. Those Indians you talking about may not have been African but definitely were slaves.
My Great Grandfather migrated from Awendaw to Charleston before there was a bridge across the Cooper. He always used Geechee. Therefore, we all used Geechee as well. Growing up in and around Charleston, I heard Geechee far more than Gullah.
As an adult, I use Gullah, Geechee interchangeably. When speaking to people outside of the corridor, I use Gullah Geechee in conjunction. Within the corridor, I still lean toward using Geechee because of how I was taught.
We’re from North Charleston and we speak geechee❤❤❤❤❤❤❤forever
I'm from Savannah Georgia; roots are in South Carolina. Your accent reminds me of Grandma and aunties. I learned so much about my roots and culture from this channel. God bless Gullah Queen.
Growing up I considered myself Geechie but as I got older I started realizing I’m Gullah Geechee. This video really confirmed my reasoning.
Yay for confirmation!! Thanks for watching.
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I'm from Jacksonville FL
My Family Is In Georgia And Both Carolinas Amelia Island
My Grandma and My Great grandfather Are Geechee
At the Same time
Going To School
My Parents Didn't Want Me To Get Bullied So I Had To Learn How To Speak Different
Sometimes I Hear My Tongue of Geechee Speak Out😂--
I would love to know more about Geechee Gullah
I know shrimp and grits
Seafoods Rice etc
I would love to know and understand more about My culture ❤❤❤❤❤
Thanks For Sharing
I Really Do Appreciate You 😊
Thank you for this explanation. Love your study
Idk cause living in Alabama my mom’s side would say that we’re Gullah and my dads side up in Pennsylvania say we’s Gullah too. Moms side says back in the day nem came from Georgia and my dads side says we came from South Carolina. So both say Gullah🤷🏿♂️ . But talking to ppl online I always gotta add that disclosure cause ppl forget that many ppl left those areas
Me too my grandma was from Alabama
Im from florida but my grandma on my dad side from south carolina in my great grandma on my mom side from allendale south Carolina... We definitely gullah geechee
thank you for this video what you do is so appreciated!!!
Savannah, Georgia
Gullah Geechee but I were called Geechee first in prison about 20 something years ago. I didn’t know what Geechee was. But they said the way I talk I knew I was from Savannah, Georgia and they called me Geechee
im not Gullah but hopefully in the future there will be Gullah Geechee classes. I would love to learn it
Agreed!
It's like that here in Beaufort county, the islands (St Helena, Daufuskie, lady's) here have a more pronounced dialect. But I'll say the ancestors were very Geechee. They used all the original language. But we all kinda just said we were Geechee.
Thanks for watching and sharing.
Very good explanation, Dr. Berry. You are absolutely right about the difference in Gullah and Geechie.
I was born in Orangeburg S.C. and I noticed while growing up. I spoke to people from Eutawville, Holly Hill, St. George, Ridgeville, Monks Cornner ect. It was a little harder to under stand them because they spoke with their mouth closed.
The words were the same as Gullah but they were dragging the words, so it sounded different.
The Geechie people in South Carolina speaks very fast; while the Gullah speaks slower.
I went to a primary school in Eutawville from 2nd through 8th grade between 1968-1975.
I had a difficult time understanding these people in Eutawville, they are Geechie and they spoke extremely fast..
My mother and father are Gullah. My last name is Ravenell and we are originally from Charleston South Carolina.
My mom and dad moved to Orangeburg County before I was born..!!!!
I’d love to hear some Geechee.
My wife is from Orangeburg, and I could feel something familiar about both sides of her family. I knew there were Gullah people in Orangeburg, but something about the way her family socialized made me wonder - that and some of their last names and phrases they used. Last year, I finally did the research, and yes, they are originally from Charleston and the Sea Islands on both sides. She first thought I been a li too proud about being from the Lowcountry: **suckteeth** she Geechee too, lol!
Growing up, was taught that Geechee was the people and Gullah was the language. Furthermore, true Gullah was only spoken around people in community because the elders did not want others especially “massacre dem” to gain understanding of the language. This was done as a form of protection and preservation of the community. This resulted in variations from community to community with those in the smaller areas and outer islands having a more “authentic” variation. Geographically, we were taught the true Geeshies and Gullah was from Atlantic Beach, SC down to Jekyll Island, GA. All others were not considered to be true Gullah Geechie.
Yes Geechie was used to be negative as a way to say not as educated and not able to speak English correctly. This negativity was promoted by those who were not part of the culture and were kept out from the authentic culture. Unfortunately those who wanted to be accepted by outsiders they began to distance themselves from the title and Steven some the culture. In actuality those who were proud to be a part of the culture like several of my family members, they would call themselves Geechie before others did which shocked outsiders.
Downtown Charleston here. Its weird how contemporary historians have omitted the Guale Ogeechee history when its very well documented (Lengua De Guale 15-1600s Land Of The Gualean Speech) and in fact more documented than the Angola Gidzi theory. The only place I have found the Angola origin narrative is in the Denmark Vesey revolt pamphlet, and an 1830s book on the Seminole/Gullah Wars (I don't count Ambrose Gonzalez books because they're post reconstruction era publications). Whereas the Guale and Ogeechee evidence is much more well documented, yet its for the most part completely omitted from the modern linear historical narrative of the ppl which appears to be borderline conspiratorial. The Guale and Ogeechee tribes were enslaved and also others freely assimilated into the lowcountry colonies in mass in the late 1600s and early 1700s at the formation of the Charles Towne (San Jorge) colony, and if were talking linguistics, all one would need to do is use the same application that Lorenzo Dow Turner used, and apply it to the native languages/dialects of the lowcountry/west indies (which is the same region the gullah islands is the northernmost point of the west indian islands along with bermuda), and the connection would be evident. Even in his book he affirmed the connection on pg 307, but because modern historians have made ppl look left, they completely disregard looking right (it would also destroy the false concept that the lingua franca of the Americas was not the lingua franca of Africa pre transatlantic slave trade), when the ancestars always maintained that we been ya, and an honest look into the historical record proves them to have been telling the troot.
1) The people who were Aboriginal to that region did not have a written language so Europeans wrote words as the heard them in whatever phonetics they had 2) The first Europeans to visit were the Spanish
When Spanish people write words that we spelled with w in English they write gu so William is Guiermo in Spanish the word for war is guerra. Guerilla lit "war -small" So that the word "Guale" had a w like initial consonant. the final vowel in Guale. There is no reason to assume it would sound like the schwa uh sound if heard by a Spaniard most likely it be the sound in let or French Cafe with the accent mark
As far as trying to disconnect Gullah from Africa. There are languages in Africa that structurally are like Gullah that have the same pronouns and calques
The words in this book may be offensive but it's directly quoted
so im from Ridgeland SC and we always say Geechee more growing up.
I'm from Savannah, Ga. I'm identify in two ways, culturally I'll say I'm Gullah-Geechee. Location I say I'm Geechee. When I move to the Atlanta area, was the first time people started asking me if I was from the island. Now I understand. 😅
Interesting I really love this video
Do you know if people from st george or the walterboro area are geechee? you should make a video about the basilect form of gullah I rarely heard it
Yes! I certainly think Walterboro & St. George would fit into Geechee easily. I’ll make that video. Thanks for watching.
My family goes back in Savannah a few generations and then back from Hilton Head Island, Beaufort county plantations. To others I say Gullah Geechee but I remember people saying we were Geechee coming up. My mom worked in corporate jobs and said a lot of men would not take her serious because of her accent. She said she worked hard to change it. She was SUPER hard on me and would correct my pronunciation thinking I would be picked on. I love ❤hearing my grandma and cousins talk. I have not given up the recipes and food.
I grew up in Walterboro S.C. My ancestry DNA results says I'm 98 percent African. My family & friends from Walterboro are definitely Gullah Geechie, @@DrJessicaBerry
I discovered that I have family from Savannah, Georgia, and a lot of the traditions of superstitious beliefs that my family practices or believes come from the Gullah Geechee. My aunt made a joke saying that we must be a little bit of Geechee because we eat a lot of rice in my family. And ever since then, that made me do some studying and research, and I found the connections finding that on my father's side, we have family from Savannah, Georgia, which is a part of the Gullah Geechee Heritage corridor.
Savannah tribes are the real Geechies, also it's mostly the Boomers on up due to the propaganda of Roots think Gullah's are of African origin but the "Silent Gen" will tell you they're Indians cause they knew they're the Guale Indians and offshoots of the Yamasee Indians
I moved to Savannah in the 70's when there were still alot of the elders around to tell you this
I carry Creek/Gullah Blackfoot and Cherokee lineages
Gullah/Guale Seminole Choctaw Apalachee Chickasaw Creek Natchez origin is with the Yamasee the Aboriginal Negro Tribes of the Southeast and our origin is here, not in Africa
Gullah Geechee from Huger, SC
Im from cainhoy bub
Huger fam!!!!! Thanks for checking in. Wha side you from?
Cainhoy!!! I was there this weekend. Love home.
My Family is from Huger too
@@DrJessicaBerry My family lives near the Richardson family in Huger.
So, your ppl didn’t want you speaking it outside the house. My pops didn’t want me speaking JC INSIDE the house. 😂 He really probably didn’t want me speaking it at all. Same reason. He felt it would hold me back later in life. I’m sure he knew I’d be speaking it outside because everyone around outside was speaking it. It’s like some of our ppl feel like knowing how to speak our creoles will negatively impact(seep inside) our english 😂. The more we respect our creoles, the more we’ll realize that knowing how to speak in these different ways is stimulating to the brain and that’s a good thing.
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My mama nem from Rosemount & My dad folk from Jame'(Yes Jame' not James) Island!! An' I born & raise off Ruthledge Av/Downtown ....So I boff Gullah Geechee😂😂😂 &yes I only much did jus type dus in my Geechee accent so if ya can' read em & unda'stan den I can' help ya. #AuthenticGullahGeecheeGyalOffDaMuscle and we still guh eat crab PETA😜😝😋
Geechee people are from the ogeeche river area in Georgia not Africa
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Gullah= Guale