A beautiful culture and one to be proud of. Gifted people from God. Food, craft, music and planting. We can make a way out of no where. Self taught. You don't have to read a book to learn everything.
Don't let this all fool you. Most of the people following these traditions are elders. The young ones today are no different than any other group of young people who destroy American culture.
Thank that same God you don't still live in Africa! I do, and I'd move tomorrow. Praise Him that he took you to the US, despite the hardships along the way.
This is the people i want to close my eyes with. They are so close to my Belizean people. I can feel the love of the culture and vibes of my blood line. I'm coming, wait for me I'll find a way to reach this place. I'm in New York City, but this place is calling out to me. I love you all before you even know me.
My 6x Grandmother was a slave on Hilton Head Island she eventually moved to North Carolina after slavery ended even though she was a free woman in 1840. My dad's family still lives in the part of NC she brought them to. I would love to visit Hilton Head to see where she came from.
CatholicKittie we may be family! My Grand parents, Great grandparents and so on we're born Hiltonhead Island I have no idea when our ancestors came her from Sierra Leone.
Im sadden by this and I think a lot of black people who have ancestors( like myself) who were from this region of the country( my grandmother's birthplace )are so detached from this culture really are at a disadvantage and need to find a way back to reconnect to it FOR OUR SURVIVAL.
We Need 2 Bring More Attention 2 this Beautiful and Much Needed Rich History! I Pray that ALL the Black Ppl & Rich Influential Ppl Will Help Preserve this Culture 🙏🏽
To my Gullah/Geechees… The name Gullah is in the Strong’s Concordance Bible dictionary as a Hebrew name. Look in the Hebrew Language section on page 1353 and you can see for yourselves. Yah’ll (we) are Hebrews. Our names were not mis-pronounced as Angola or Golas although some of our ancestors were from there. The Spanish and English called us Gullah or GuYah (In spanish the LL makes a Y sound) because they knew who we were. Geechees are the Yamasee or Yahmassee (Yah) (Yahweh) who were also Hebrews and were called (Maroons, Guale, Yamacraw, Creek Aborigines) by the Spanish. Cum-by-Yah, Ah-ha-Yah, We-Ben-Yah (We Son of Yah), Hallelu-Yah.
@@jamesahern9864 You need to stay in your lane fraudster. The truth is here. BLACKS ARE THE REAL HEBREWS! Get use it or go back the hell (Caspian Sea/ Eastern Europe and caves) where you came from!
To my Gullah/Geechees... The name Gullah is in the Strong's Bible dictionary as a Hebrew name on the Hebrew section 1353 (Please look this up for yourselves) . Yah'll (we) are Hebrews. Our names were not mis-pronounced as Angola or Golas although some of our ancestors were from there. Geechees are the Yamasee or Yahmassee (Yah) (Yahweh) who were also Hebrews (Maroons, Guale, Yamacraw, Creek Aborigines) Cum-by-Yah, Ah-ha-Yah, We-Ben-Yah (We Son of Yah), Hallelu-Yah
Being from Caribbean I find this to be so sick. I was amazed when I first heard about gullah, then I heard about the developers. Culture is so similar to the anglo caribbean
Same thing happened in the Hawaiian Islands. Wealthy American Companies came in, Bought all the land and outpriced the natives. Just like Hilton Head Island. I lived on Hilton Head Island in the mid 70's. Sad. Hang on to your heritage.
This story is very sad. However, Gullah culture will overcome the transience of cutthroat capitalistic society that is not ecologically sustainable! Power to the Gullah People because they came from our above to pull us back up to inclusive humanity!
Alusine Barrie Sierra Leone is just one. We have all of West African blood through the slave trade. They were popular with rice cropping and that’s what a lot of slaves did on the plantation
I lived in Charleston South Carolina as a kid all my young friends were of the Gullah descent, and I grew up listening to the old folks speaking the Gullah language and I can speak it fluently as a child but as we moved away and grew older I lost that native tongue I wish I could still speak it my family would sit back and laugh and laugh and laugh listening to me speak geechee
For more stories on the Gullahs, I would recommend the 1922 book: "The Black Border: Gullah Stories of the Carolina Coast" on the Kindle: www.amazon.com/Black-Border-Gullah-Stories-Carolina-ebook/dp/B017FBU5OC/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1471127358&sr=1-1&keywords=The+Black+Border%3A+Gullah+Stories#nav-subnav
This is sad. The Gullah land should be protected. This reminds me of what was done to the American Indians. Where will the Gullah end up? Lost like the Indians? Give crumbs here and there?
@@fitawrarifitness6842 how ignorant you are 😂🤣😂🤣😂 ever heard of the dawes rolls?????? THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED! europeans paid $5 to put their funky names on the registry and lo and behold they change Indian to native American. PLEASE GO SWALLOW 10 MILLION PILLS
Slave ship stop DIRECTLY off the coast of Brunswick, NC named for Brunswick County in N.C. but it gets left out of ALL the Gullah Geeche conversation in the Town of Northwest i know my family the Ballards have been here around 1801 Im a 6th Generation Ballard and there 4 generation since me so weve been here about 223 years thats a long time without any recognition
Whenever we have something that's part of our history and culture it's snuffed out like our language and not knowing our family history. Where are the influential blacks who invest in stadiums and sports franchises and movie theaters.
Help support Gullah Families! Enough is Enough! More rights are needed for property owners! Will you join us in supporting this issue? Click on the link to learn more and to read our petition letter: www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/815/863/737/
I am a white guy and I lived on Hilton Head Island in the mid 70's. The majority of the workers at the Hyatt Hotel on Hilton Head were from Bluffton, Buford County. My best friend and room mate was Arthur (Cass) Grant and he is black. I didn't mind being the only white boy working room service at the Hyatt Hotel. So many kind people and helpful people. There was no racism. I wish we all could go back in time when there wasn't all this hate we have today. Now I can't afford to go to Hilton Head Island. Besides it's just not the same. This is a good story....Brings me back to those good ol days that will never be repeated. Peace and love to everyone in 2021.
Find it sad that with all the wealth of evidence (doesn't even bear stating obvious FACTS) historical trauma has driven many mad with all this "we were never slaves/we were the original Americans" dissonance. 🤦🏾♂️
I understand everything that me and said we speak the language too and I’m from Beaufort South Carolina in the west Indies in the Caribbean like I don’t understand why they continue to try to lie about us being indigenous to the Americas and how Mexico was a part of us too, and he took that that’s why we’re so connected💜💜🌻🌻🌻 Black people are from everywhere around the world. We are the originals.
Your right. My grandmother said that all her people weren't enslaved too. She said that some of her people were already in America for thousands of years . My family is from Beaufort county as well. ✌🏽
Dont do that. Stop disrespecting the native Americans. It's wildly offensive to their race that has been virtually erased from their own lan by Europeans and we get to benefit from more than they do as a result. Uk wtf a native American looks like nd it's not us.
No, this whole blacks being the true natives is a denialist propaganda lie perpetuated by black people who can't come to terms with their African roots
Because the movie not only exposed the owners to developers but the limited education of the people opening up exploitation. Its called Gentrification.
It’s called progress. Every other culture and group have lost something because of it. That’s what we are all told. Things progress and change, get over it!!
History is good to remember so you don't make the same mistakes. There is a point in time when you have to assimilate with others and stop balaming them for the past. I am eastern Cherokee and you are in my land. The American Indian did not enslave you so stop thinking that you are entitled to their land!
Christina Jensen Exactly! Anyone can be a native! Lol all native means is where a person is born lol,but to be Aboriginals of The Americas means we are Indigenous to these lands.
Shrimp and grits, basket weaving. GULLAH comes from Guale and Geechi comes from Ogeechi river which is where they resided. These are not African traditions this indegenous American culture that they erased by telling you the Guale tried died out and Africanizing the people who live in their lands
Gullah pronounced Goo-lah and Geechie are two seperate tribes. We have always been here and no we are not from Africa...stop disrespecting our ancestors.
How do you know this? So where religion do yall practice? Isnt it close to something pike voodoo? Why do yall sound like Jamaicans in which both languages borrow many African words? Why are there African words in your dialect and why do yall have religious practices similar to those in Africa if your ancestors aren't from Africa?
@@s25s2m9 He has a point, why is so much africanisms present if you got nothing to do with Africa? Gullah people are very connected to their African heritage
"Gullah Geeche nation has seen a lot of changes and many of those changes have been brought because people didn't have a clear understanding of our story." Wait a sec! You're talking about people changing Gullah traditions, while wearing an Ankh? That's not part of your culture at all. 4:17
CatholicKittie It's funny to me that so many African Americans pretend that they're somehow a part of the legacy of Egypt. That would be like Western Europeans identifying with the Roman empire or something, naming our kids Julius and Augustus, LOL. Or what about the "Hebrew Israelites?" Man, talk about an identity crisis.
I just don't get it. Why don't they do the research if they really want to honor our ancestors. Slaves were not taken from Egypt and African Americans were not the Hebrew slaves of the bible. Our history is great enough as is once you bother to learn the truth.
My oldest son used to watch a TV show called Gullah Gullah Island. It was probably 20 years ago.
I remember the show my son and I watched the same show. I would love to travel there with him that would be grand😁
Help preserve our culture and grant us ownership of our land and heritage...as well as townships
You should get your land back.
A beautiful culture and one to be proud of. Gifted people from God. Food, craft, music and planting. We can make a way out of no where. Self taught. You don't have to read a book to learn everything.
They own the land, they choose to sell it mostly. For the biggest part, they chose to sell. That is their fault. This happens all across america
Don't let this all fool you. Most of the people following these traditions are elders. The young ones today are no different than any other group of young people who destroy American culture.
Our PEOPLE ARE WAKING UP TO OUR TRUE HISTORY THE MOST HIGH IS WAKING HIS CHILDREN UP AND NOBODY IS GOING TO BE ABLE TO STOP IT.
I wouldn't try to stop it. More people should hear it.
Thank that same God you don't still live in Africa! I do, and I'd move tomorrow. Praise Him that he took you to the US, despite the hardships along the way.
Glory to GOD IS THE HIGHEST.
Indeed
This is the people i want to close my eyes with. They are so close to my Belizean people. I can feel the love of the culture and vibes of my blood line. I'm coming, wait for me I'll find a way to reach this place. I'm in New York City, but this place is calling out to me. I love you all before you even know me.
Come Ruth, you are always welcome. Be blessed my sister.
More than happy to understand, learn and respect the Gullah language, culture etc.
i'm a bahamian from The Bahamas and we have a similar accent to the Geechee (0_0) WOW we HAVE to be related!!
Clanisha Miller we are it's facts they separated us and change names
Living With Purpose I think differently we was brought her from South America not Africa
@Living With Purpose My great grandfather is Bahamian and my grandma always told me about our Gullah roots
@Vonique Bowleg thats late, you have to research the Island Barbados, who SETTLED SC. IN 1670.
@@cakelady9291 there were slaves that went through south America. There was a port in Panama I think.
Im a proud descendant of the gullah Geechee folk 🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿 my DNA is Mende 🇸🇱 Fulani 🇸🇳and Balanta 🇬🇼 🙌🏿 Charleston SC 🙌🏿🙌🏿
My mom told me every so often we are geechee we are in California. I never knew it was a real thing
GOD BLESS THE GULLAH PEOPLE.
I feel so Much respect for this culture, I it sickens me that this land has been developed. Such beautiful culture & food. God bless
My 6x Grandmother was a slave on Hilton Head Island she eventually moved to North Carolina after slavery ended even though she was a free woman in 1840. My dad's family still lives in the part of NC she brought them to. I would love to visit Hilton Head to see where she came from.
CatholicKittie we may be family! My Grand parents, Great grandparents and so on we're born Hiltonhead Island I have no idea when our ancestors came her from Sierra Leone.
I’m very interested in having a convo if possible. I’m currently doing a research and I would love to share your side. joannaleehenry@gmail.com
I have family in St. Helena... Some moved to Georgia and Alabama. 💖
Im sadden by this and I think a lot of black people who have ancestors( like myself) who were from this region of the country( my grandmother's birthplace )are so detached from this culture really are at a disadvantage and need to find a way back to reconnect to it FOR OUR SURVIVAL.
It's my mother and grandparents birth place too...we go to Daufuski Day every June when we can🙂❤...we might be cousins.
We Need 2 Bring More Attention 2 this Beautiful and Much Needed Rich History! I Pray that ALL the Black Ppl & Rich Influential Ppl Will Help Preserve this Culture 🙏🏽
To my Gullah/Geechees… The name Gullah is in the Strong’s Concordance Bible dictionary as a Hebrew name. Look in the Hebrew Language section on page 1353 and you can see for yourselves. Yah’ll (we) are Hebrews. Our names were not mis-pronounced as Angola or Golas although some of our ancestors were from there. The Spanish and English called us Gullah or GuYah (In spanish the LL makes a Y sound) because they knew who we were. Geechees are the Yamasee or Yahmassee (Yah) (Yahweh) who were also Hebrews and were called (Maroons, Guale, Yamacraw, Creek Aborigines) by the Spanish. Cum-by-Yah, Ah-ha-Yah, We-Ben-Yah (We Son of Yah), Hallelu-Yah.
Another victim of Prison BHI bs
Thats bullshit. The Hebrew is NOT REAL!!!!
@@jamesahern9864 You need to stay in your lane fraudster. The truth is here. BLACKS ARE THE REAL HEBREWS! Get use it or go back the hell (Caspian Sea/ Eastern Europe and caves) where you came from!
To my Gullah/Geechees... The name Gullah is in the Strong's Bible dictionary as a Hebrew name on the Hebrew section 1353 (Please look this up for yourselves)
. Yah'll (we) are Hebrews. Our names were not mis-pronounced as Angola or Golas although some of our ancestors were from there. Geechees are the Yamasee or Yahmassee (Yah) (Yahweh) who were also Hebrews (Maroons, Guale, Yamacraw, Creek Aborigines) Cum-by-Yah, Ah-ha-Yah, We-Ben-Yah (We Son of Yah), Hallelu-Yah
Being from Caribbean I find this to be so sick. I was amazed when I first heard about gullah, then I heard about the developers. Culture is so similar to the anglo caribbean
Zoch Buppet its one in the same.
Zoch Buppet cause we really all the same they separated us from our families in the islands
@@cakelady9291 The Geechee people are African Americans. They've always been African American.
@@emmanuelervin5035 facts
Same thing happened in the Hawaiian Islands. Wealthy American Companies came in, Bought all the land and outpriced the natives. Just like Hilton Head Island. I lived on Hilton Head Island in the mid 70's. Sad. Hang on to your heritage.
This story is very sad. However, Gullah culture will overcome the transience of cutthroat capitalistic society that is not ecologically sustainable! Power to the Gullah People because they came from our above to pull us back up to inclusive humanity!
I've always wanted to visit these islands and stay. I don't know where to start
J356 vicha58 same here
Perry White sounds like my uncle in Liberia
Take it back, take it all back. Stop selling now please! No more exploding!
These people have some trace of Sierra Leonean culture. Correct me if am wrong.
Alusine Barrie Sierra Leone is just one. We have all of West African blood through the slave trade. They were popular with rice cropping and that’s what a lot of slaves did on the plantation
Apparently we (Gullah) have the same/very similar language to the Krio spoken in Sierra Leone.
@@ladyarin2092u wrong Gullah is from Angola which is the short term for Angola
I lived in Charleston South Carolina as a kid all my young friends were of the Gullah descent, and I grew up listening to the old folks speaking the Gullah language and I can speak it fluently as a child but as we moved away and grew older I lost that native tongue I wish I could still speak it my family would sit back and laugh and laugh and laugh listening to me speak geechee
A hurricane is usually what put a stop to the encroachment on the gullah communities
Beautiful culture!!! ❤ Knowledge truly is power❤️
For more stories on the Gullahs, I would recommend the 1922 book: "The
Black Border: Gullah Stories of the Carolina Coast" on the Kindle: www.amazon.com/Black-Border-Gullah-Stories-Carolina-ebook/dp/B017FBU5OC/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1471127358&sr=1-1&keywords=The+Black+Border%3A+Gullah+Stories#nav-subnav
Stop selling please... lease if you must, but keep your land close to your heart. No More Buy Out! #STOP NOW!...
I miss Bill Moyer also Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor (look her up she has amazing cookbooks)
This is sad. The Gullah land should be protected. This reminds me of what was done to the American Indians. Where will the Gullah end up? Lost like the Indians? Give crumbs here and there?
We are the indians bro.....its deeper than you think...solve, enslave,
@@bigcarolinq Indians are from India. Stop promoting misinformation. Indians were never reclassified as "negros".
Nope we all know about this shit and we still speak this language from South Carolina to Florida even Louisiana
@@fitawrarifitness6842 how ignorant you are 😂🤣😂🤣😂 ever heard of the dawes rolls?????? THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED! europeans paid $5 to put their funky names on the registry and lo and behold they change Indian to native American. PLEASE GO SWALLOW 10 MILLION PILLS
I imagine they are people and individuals determine what they do with their lives. Dependency is no life.
Slave ship stop DIRECTLY off the coast of Brunswick, NC named for Brunswick County in N.C. but it gets left out of ALL the Gullah Geeche conversation in the Town of Northwest i know my family the Ballards have been here around 1801 Im a 6th Generation Ballard and there 4 generation since me so weve been here about 223 years thats a long time without any recognition
Nuh gi weh yah fadda an mudda story. Pass it on to the family or friends of your own kind. Lock it down now! Don't lose to the WASP exploiters...
I'm sorry that I'm just learning about this, why haven't I found out about this nation before now.
Whenever we have something that's part of our history and culture it's snuffed out like our language and not knowing our family history. Where are the influential blacks who invest in stadiums and sports franchises and movie theaters.
Where is tbere a single functioning black city in the US?
Help support Gullah Families! Enough is Enough! More rights are needed for property owners! Will you join us in supporting this issue? Click on the link to learn more and to read our petition letter: www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/815/863/737/
Love this. Marquetta keep it up lady!
I am a white guy and I lived on Hilton Head Island in the mid 70's. The majority of the workers at the Hyatt Hotel on Hilton Head were from Bluffton, Buford County. My best friend and room mate was Arthur (Cass) Grant and he is black. I didn't mind being the only white boy working room service at the Hyatt Hotel. So many kind people and helpful people. There was no racism. I wish we all could go back in time when there wasn't all this hate we have today. Now I can't afford to go to Hilton Head Island. Besides it's just not the same. This is a good story....Brings me back to those good ol days that will never be repeated. Peace and love to everyone in 2021.
Gullah here in Maryland
Have there been any changes to the heir land situation discussed here since this video was produced? I hope so. It’s a shame.
Find it sad that with all the wealth of evidence (doesn't even bear stating obvious FACTS) historical trauma has driven many mad with all this "we were never slaves/we were the original Americans" dissonance. 🤦🏾♂️
The heirs property issue is affecting my family. We’re working to preserve our land but a house divided must unite or fall as one.
Wow they sound just like Bahamians
All of the Gullah people were not enslaved Africans. They are aboriginals indigenous to the Americas …don’t be fooled.
I understand everything that me and said we speak the language too and I’m from Beaufort South Carolina in the west Indies in the Caribbean like I don’t understand why they continue to try to lie about us being indigenous to the Americas and how Mexico was a part of us too, and he took that that’s why we’re so connected💜💜🌻🌻🌻 Black people are from everywhere around the world. We are the originals.
Your right. My grandmother said that all her people weren't enslaved too. She said that some of her people were already in America for thousands of years . My family is from Beaufort county as well. ✌🏽
I've been to Hilton Head.
NOTHING LIKE IT USED BE
i wish i could find more history on AWENDAW sc.
Aren't these people the real natives? Along with the rest of black american people....
Dont do that. Stop disrespecting the native Americans. It's wildly offensive to their race that has been virtually erased from their own lan by Europeans and we get to benefit from more than they do as a result. Uk wtf a native American looks like nd it's not us.
No, this whole blacks being the true natives is a denialist propaganda lie perpetuated by black people who can't come to terms with their African roots
So sad. Movies like Conrack put an end to the Gullahs.
Why do you say that Conrack put an end to the Gullahs?
Because the movie not only exposed the owners to developers but the limited education of the people opening up exploitation. Its called Gentrification.
@@kellyclark7517 Genrally exposed the Gullas to developer gentrification.
sounds like joint tenancy.
Sounds just like 🇻🇮🇻🇮🇻🇮
do the Gullah practice Vodou?
Isa Shisha yes we do
They practice Hoodoo
It’s called progress. Every other culture and group have lost something because of it. That’s what we are all told. Things progress and change, get over it!!
Love it
✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿
@1:38 " their Hebrew Judean culture thrived"
Lmao
Heirs property? Interesting....
Sounds like the Jamaican "family land" concept.
History is good to remember so you don't make the same mistakes. There is a point in time when you have to assimilate with others and stop balaming them for the past. I am eastern Cherokee and you are in my land. The American Indian did not enslave you so stop thinking that you are entitled to their land!
So the Gullah are native to America.
no. of course not. They are descendents of Africans brought to America as slaves.
No we are not Native,we are the Aboriginals of the Americas....Whites are Native to the Americas.
American Indian Stand Up...2020 we coming back strong
Samantha Huiel um wrong NATIVE Americans are THE original people tf? Whites immigrated to American
Christina Jensen Exactly! Anyone can be a native! Lol all native means is where a person is born lol,but to be Aboriginals of The Americas means we are Indigenous to these lands.
Shrimp and grits, basket weaving. GULLAH comes from Guale and Geechi comes from Ogeechi river which is where they resided. These are not African traditions this indegenous American culture that they erased by telling you the Guale tried died out and Africanizing the people who live in their lands
Gullah pronounced Goo-lah and Geechie are two seperate tribes. We have always been here and no we are not from Africa...stop disrespecting our ancestors.
Thank you, my grandpa was geechie. He is from Mississippi. You are correct they are two different tribes. Both indigenous to turtle island
How do you know this? So where religion do yall practice? Isnt it close to something pike voodoo? Why do yall sound like Jamaicans in which both languages borrow many African words? Why are there African words in your dialect and why do yall have religious practices similar to those in Africa if your ancestors aren't from Africa?
@@mfield040491 bro calm down.
@@s25s2m9 He has a point, why is so much africanisms present if you got nothing to do with Africa? Gullah people are very connected to their African heritage
"Gullah Geeche nation has seen a lot of changes and many of those changes have been brought because people didn't have a clear understanding of our story." Wait a sec! You're talking about people changing Gullah traditions, while wearing an Ankh? That's not part of your culture at all. 4:17
I noticed that too! West and Central Africa culture is NOT Egypt and it's culture.
CatholicKittie It's funny to me that so many African Americans pretend that they're somehow a part of the legacy of Egypt. That would be like Western Europeans identifying with the Roman empire or something, naming our kids Julius and Augustus, LOL.
Or what about the "Hebrew Israelites?" Man, talk about an identity crisis.
I just don't get it. Why don't they do the research if they really want to honor our ancestors. Slaves were not taken from Egypt and African Americans were not the Hebrew slaves of the bible. Our history is great enough as is once you bother to learn the truth.
CatholicKittie I think people really are just comparing the enslavement of African here in America and the islands.
It doesn't have to be. People can wear whatever they want.