Why is GULLAH - GEECHEE special? African Culture Preserved in America

[@demetricklouis5710]

My mother was Gullah Geechee. She's gone now. She was the storyteller in our family. Content like this is greatly appreciated.

[@Bettysmith654]

Just found out I have Gullah Geechee ancestors and now I'm obsessed with learning as much as possible

[@Roundtable1869]

As an African American I appreciate you sharing this video which highlights our connection to The Motherland. Peace and Blessings.

[@briggsmaleakah]

Our Gullah culture expands to the Bahamas. I appreciate your support!

[@Ikena276]

They also have Yoruba village in south Carolina called oyotunji and a Igbo village in Virginia

[@MieRichardson]

Bless you for keeping traditions My roots are Geechee I remember my Grandfather speaking with us in Gullah and French ❤ I'm so proud of my heritage ❤

[@karenchason1117]

I Love learning about people that kept their culture to pass on to their future generations. Not many do that.

[@jdhosey4497]

Gullah geechie here. Love learning more about my culture

[@Nogo844]

Thanks so much for sharing my home and its African-descendant people's origins.

[@dwightjimerson6098]

Thanks!

[@applezbereal2436]

This is the best History Class...Thank You...Your work is very educational

[@SocaCarib]

This is interesting to listen to. I encourage you to research the Garifuna people who live in central America. They retained some African culture like the gullah people

[@rissyb83]

This channel is invaluable! What a gem. Please continue with sharing and teaching us our history.

[@kieshame888]

Thank you so much for sharing this black history. Getting the back story on the term "geechi" has been enlightening. And for those geechis that I do know, they have a very distinct way of speaking. Much appreciation....Subbed!

[@walidshabazz5193]

Culture and traditions survived, amazing.

[@RBG1st]

North Carolina is included in the Gullah Geechee corridor as well . Also we are not named after the Ogeechee river. In the Mende language, the letter "G" can be pronounced like the letter "k" in English. That's why "kissi" is also known as "Gizzi". That's where the adoption of the name "Geechee" by enslaved Afrikans on the Georgia Sea islands comes from. Good video

[@mindcontroling]

@jaholo We Geeche have named the river Ogeeche, people name lands, rivers, mountain etc after themselves not these places name itself. We are Ogeeche that's our true name. We are a sister nation to the Yuchi and we are aboriginal to America.

[@RBG1st]

@@mindcontroling SMH

[@Michaeltison7]

@@RBG1st mfs be killing me with this shit🤣

[@Michaeltison7]

@@RBG1st they be like “we Gullah aboriginal”like we literally use African words and cook African food.people are delusional🤣

[@RBG1st]

@@Michaeltison7 exactly!!! 💯

[@TripDeze]

Thank you so much..I love my family.

[@kevinfowler8712]

Thanks sis for the informative video. I'm from South Carolina where they brought the tribe of Judah according to slave history. I'm wondering how much do you know on this subject.

[@richardgaya3965]

Your channel is always a great source of learning and knowledge Ahsante SAANA!!

[@Geechee-Man]

I am fully Gullah Geechee from the Charleston, SC and I approve this message

[@wonathancopeland8327]

Thanks

[@AfricanMuslim948]

I’m Geechee and extremely proud that my Culture is finally getting its credit!! Low Country Charleston Sc. chuck town!!!

[@joquishajoestar263]

Thank you so much for this video it was quite insightful and helped me learn more about my grandfather's people ❤❤❤❤

[@rosemaryglover9119]

Thank you for sharing this valuable information. This is my ancestry 😊

[@lincolnrjohnson2619]

Thank you for sharing this information.

[@AC-sy8ge]

This was an awesome video. I have been looing more into my heritage. My great great grandmother was from this area and spoke of it often. She everbtually left and ended ip north. I was blessed to learn some of this information prior to this video but bot in such depth as is presented here. Thank you!

[@herstory_original]

Wow this was very insightful to the culture, thank you❤

[@sylvialevy]

Beautiful, Brilliant, Majestic Queen Master Teacher !!! Thank You, Thank You, Thank Youuuu for sharing this. Both sides of my family is from South Carolina. One of my Great, Great Aunts on my Mother's side was Geechee. The Creator privileged me to have know five of my Great, Great Uncles, and three of my Great, Great Aunts, all from Conway South Carolina. Thank you again. May The Creator continue to bless you with love, grace, peace, good health, knowledge, and prosperity.

[@sandraatkins2539]

My paternal grandmother who was born and raided in the Sea Islands of South Carolina never referred to herself as Gullah. We are Geechee.

[@e.mountain1637]

My paternal grandmother was Geeche as well! She’s passed. I wish I knew more of her history.

[@chevalierdenoir754]

I can definitely see that the Gullah people are unique and distinct in the US region as most people of African descent in that region have had to assimilate into American culture and abandon their roots but the more I listened to this video I even heard more familiar words such as Calabash, wooden mortars were used up until the mid 20th century in rural parts of the Jamaica, Dukono- corn paste served in banana leaves is not only used in Jamaica but other parts of the Caribbean and I still eat that, Calabash containers are so popular in Jamaica that there is a popular poetry festival in Jamaica called the Calabash festival that draws tourists from all over the world annually. African-infused religious forms in Jamaica such as Kumina, Revivalist, Poco Mania, Mya, and Junkuno dancing in circles and shouting is definitely a major feature of these African-infused religions in Jamaica that they claim to involve ancestrial spirits. Also, in Maroon communities such as Charles Town, and Accompong (Africans who escaped slavery on the arrival of the Spanish) in Jamaica, a horn instrument known as the Abeng is blown as a way of announcing the birth of a child or the death of a community member. Naturally, basket weaving would have been popular among slaves made from Whicker trees because that's what they used to put their ground produce in. How can all these terms apply to both groups of people?

[@whoahna8438]

People who say this as you and this video are really just uniformed about Black Americans in the Southern U.S. This is Mississippi and at 7:13 you can see the young lady blowing what Jamaican Maroons call Abeng as you mentioned. kzbin.info/www/bejne/b2LCoICii9Z-mbM

[@gideonappleseed9632]

​@@whoahna8438 true theu dint speak for us

[@thewordsmith5440]

We didn't abandon our roots. Many Africans were sold from their mothers so they couldn't even preserve anything because they had no knowledge of their parents culture and they didn't get as many Africans in the U.S. as other countries and they purposely kept Africans from the same tribe separated. Gullahs were isolated so they had all the time to mix and preserve African names and words.

[@omggiiirl2077]

Yes! To this day, despite my paternal Grandfather's bloodlines moving from Georgia and south Carolina and Tennessee, and then to Oklahoma and most recently to Seattle, we retain certain stories and traditions that i still live and cherish. My family still loves rice, okra, gumbos, stews, black eyes pease, whole animal eating lots of fish and seafood, and even bush meat. I remember my Grandma telling me about how they lived in Oklahoma and how pregnant women would find red clay and roast it to consume, how we would eat shrimp but save the shells to grind into powder, and even the way they spoke was different. Because of this i had no problems understanding most of what is said in Nigerian pidgin, and Patois. And a lot of us who have this ancestry also have links to British Carribean most likely Jamaica, Bermuda and other islands. But the one thing I've always enjoyed was the food! Grammaw taught all us chilluns how to throw down in that kitchen! And we also retain a lot of our first nations indigenous knowledge too, especially on my Grammaws side of the family. All those different plants and certain ways we would approach nature, such as asking permission to enter, and respecting spirits is something we still do to this day. Well at least i do.

[@indigenoussoul4106]

Speak for yourself!!! Because there no WE and US, talk about self... Those dishes you mentioned is my Indigenous dishes, stop trying to give it to Africans...It appear, you are a fake or you don't know nothing about the true Indigenous Americans Aborigines have been in America before the beginning of time. Nigerian only because Free Nigerian in 1960, please do your genealogy it's the key 🔐🌹.. peace.

[@omggiiirl2077]

@@indigenoussoul4106 first you do not know me to call me a fake. And second it's not my fault I'm comfortable with being a person of mixed ancestry with African and first nations and Hawaiian ancestry on my father's side and Korean ancestry on my mother's side. You assume that I'm a fake and didn't do my ancestry study, but i can tell the exact routes that each of the different ethnic groups took to come together in the Americas to become my ancestors. I didn't just do a DNA study, i also did research and am still doing research. Not every Black person is indigenous to the Americas and I'm one of those people. My African ancestors were enslaved by muscogee creek and that's why I have no European Ancestry. My native American ancestors were in this continent for tens of thousands of years. And my Black African ancestors were here at the earliest in the 1490's. Gullah Geechee people are a mix of these people and our language and culture reflects that. It's not my fault you have a problem with African people and can't accept your African heritage. So please don't try to tell me something that is personal to my family.

[@omggiiirl2077]

@@indigenoussoul4106 and if you read my post i never spoke of others I DID speak for myself. So what's your damned point? Just to start an argument? If you do not know Gullah Geechee history and heritage and how we came about, then stfu. You jumped at me to try to poke holes in my story, assuming things you didn't even get right. Don't try again, go study YOUR history and if you are only native American then good for you, go mind native American business and not Black American business. Again i have no problem with my African heritage, and i did speak for myself and my family. You chose to foolishly assume i was speaking about you. Maybe that's because a hit dog will holler? Does it hurt you that much to be African? Seek help for that. You won't be whole until you learn to accept your entire self. Also as an indigenous woman i find it offensive that you think it's alright to try and insinuate that native Americans aren't the true indigenous and Black people are. They already have had to deal with so damned much and here your idiot self comes trying to take what is left. I am indigenous by blood, and culture. And being indigenous is more than just professing it. Do you even stand with first nations people as they got trampled and harmed at standing rock? Did you speak up when many freemen we're kicked out of the various tribes because of our Black heritage even though we are related to the tribe by blood? Do you mentor indigenous youth? Or help elders? Or deliver water and resources to reservations that do not have running water> were you helping when covid hit and natives were being hit hard? Did your heart hurt for the native children that were kidnapped and kept in cages by the trump regime just because they are from south of the border? Or did you turn a blind eye because you think they're Mexican and it's different from native indigenous American? Because i can tell you as an African descendant and a native descendant i was involved. You have no knowledge of who my family is and how long there been here in this country. Don't ever come for me when you don't even know or accept yourself.

[@indigenoussoul4106]

@@omggiiirl2077 What happen to the long comment you where swearing on!! Did you delete it? Hawaii and South Korea was two of my duty stations... Doing my military service,also had two military duty tours in Africa...A large number of People living on the continent of Africa say they are not Africans nor Black.............Usikasirike, kwa mtu anayejua ukweli...Amani 🌺🌹🌹...

[@omggiiirl2077]

@@indigenoussoul4106 okay what's your point? They aren't related to me so there's no reason to mention them when it comes to my speaking on my ancestry. So you trying to use that as a way to convince me I'm not a descendant of Indigenous Africans kidnapped and sold into a horrible situation is not only foul but fruitless. And you speaking to me in a language i can't understand doesn't do anything to and for me. I can do it too. 'ai kae, hele aku me 'ai noa loa ke kukae pua'a. Ē uʻu kou laho kole.

[@BarFit4Life]

Gullah and Geechee is a indigenous tribe we been here and all the tribes in America are really copper color labeled as African Americans but we don’t come from Africa, Catawba people and Cherokee people that’s labels African American by government in there system but we can let the foreigners tell our stories 🪶we been here💙

[@CharlesJohnson-gl4px]

Cherokee and Gullah geechie here

[@awahlmubdi4372]

Very familiar my grandmother is from one of Island off Georgia we are also native American heritage. My grandmother use to talk about Gullah family along with her mother's heritage native American side as well. We are back too Afro influence throughout the world not just in one place. Thanks for speaking about our heritage of Gullah. Majority of Island's today are fancy resorts. Thanks again

[@avrahamyoel7039]

Well done!

[@rylthegenius2914]

We also have to consider while trying to make ties with Africa our bloodline are already from here. Because we are original ppl we were everywhere not just Africa. Peace and blessing a Gullah from SC.

[@thewordsmith5440]

African Americans in Louisiana also preserved a lot of African heritage. Listen to second-line music and you can look at gumbo which was influenced by wolof women.

[@whoahna8438]

We got the most

[@thewordsmith5440]

@@whoahna8438 You as in the Gullah or people in Louisiana.

[@whoahna8438]

@@thewordsmith5440 Louisiana

[@Gullahbae]

@@whoahna8438got the most what?

[@AsukuluMsombo]

The origin of the word "Gullah" can be traced to the KiKongo language, spoken around the Congo River's mouth from which the Gullah language dialects spoken by black Americans today come. Some scholars suggest that it may be cognate with the name Kongo, where the ancestors of some of the Gullah people likely originated. Gullah first came from Angola 🇦🇴 and later they bring west African people but mostly is Angola 🇦🇴 where most of Gullah slave taken from

[@yusefnegao]

Wrong it’s mostly West African if you want to see Angola and Kikongo influenced culture in the Americas then go research the palenque in Colombia

[@Gregory-yk4wx]

The GULLAH people Start in NORTH CAROLINA all the way to Florida 🎉🎉

[@akarisidibe2470]

I have always wondered if the Gullah name is synonymous to the "Jula" or "Jullah" people West Africa. The Julas were traders but gold traders in particular and they are widespread in West Africa among the Mandinka, Bambara, Mende, Fulani and other tribes. They shared a trading language called JullaKang, which basically means Jula Tongue. I even suspect that the English word "Jew-e-ller" may have had its roots in the Julla gold & precious stone traders. Some research needs to be done in this area. We've been told that the word "Jew" was derived from the name "Judah" who became the "Jullah". I have more evidence on this subject.

[@chee-chee9916]

Actually, the first so call Africans to arrive in Charleston were Hebrews.

[@osirisasar2392]

Many were free before union soldiers came. Many were runaways or maroons called Seminoles, who were a confederation of creek indigenous.

[@bettyjenkins2162]

North Carolina also

[@RA1N1TO]

Dr your should not forget bahamian wen you mentioned gullah is no separation we share the same blood the same ancestor the same language the same culture

[@mysticalphoenix3429]

The Bahamas is in the Caribbean.😘 which she does mention.

[@nwest4924]

She honorably mentioned the Caribbean’s at the start ❤We know our ANCESTORS when we get together love my Bahamians DEEPLY ❤

[@Derrty-DANCE]

Now I see why we talk like that in St. Louis, Memphis and Chicago😂

[@kinggcamoo7727]

I'm from st louis what you mean? Chicago don't talk country at all like St. louis & Memphis

[@Derrty-DANCE]

@@kinggcamoo7727 have you been to the southside of Chicago? they talk like they’re from Mississippi😭

[@Derrty-DANCE]

@@kinggcamoo7727 we was talking about who’s more country. Then you turn around talking about who is more dangerous?😭😂😭🤣😂

[@kinggcamoo7727]

@@Derrty-DANCE yeah u got the two cities mixed up they not country at all they no where near the south

[@keisharice2392]

My ancestors are Geechee and we have family in Memphis and Chicago

[@Melanin_Move]

The ring shout is even in the Caribbeans- shouters or revivalist or even Jordanites. Don’t know why they call them Jordanites, but it’s extremely old.

[@theblackilluminati2025]

I am Gullah Geechee but my family came from Gail , West Europe

[@omggiiirl2077]

My people!

[@keisharice2392]

Just found out my ancestors were Geechee today 08/26/24

[@haroldshubert5251]

My people

[@gchisom77]

Just found out my Great Grandfather was Gullah Geechee!

[@tukalors7577]

Also this is in North Carolina I know I come from them!!! Not just Georgia and South Carolina I don't know how Florida got included they are Seminoles!!!!

[@akakaskie]

Most enslave African in Charleston sc came from Angola more than west Africa.

[@yusefnegao]

But the culture is West African based very little Bantu influence and their is no rice culture in angola

[@RaMahUganda]

thank You!!! dem my peepo!!! we counted go o, didi, tati, nai, joi...1,2,3,4,5...I learn later that was from Fulani peepo

[@cedarparkrangerssc6296]

WHATTTTT WOW THAT IS AMAZING

[@RaMahUganda]

@@cedarparkrangerssc6296 so dont let nobody tell you our Ebonics is just sloppy english...we litterally had to start with our own tongues...THEY REFUSED THAT WE KNOW ENGLISH... but we still had to work build, farm handle, first build yhe factories...then work in them..... we litterally did have and still do use our own Languages coming over here.. blended them together and had our own Criole Soup ..this sorry form of english came in much later...and because they were so fearful of uprising ...they felt it was safer if they heard what said...so they started teaching a few words here and there

[@cedarparkrangerssc6296]

@@RaMahUganda it surprised me because I speak Fulani and when I was reading the comment I was thinking wow that sounds like Fulani counting until you confirmed it

[@RaMahUganda]

@@cedarparkrangerssc6296 WOW!! ...i wish i could remember the rest...the number10 slips my mind...i didnt really get past 30.... once i was in the public school system... i pretty much had to forget most of it...😔

[@kennethmcclennon1845]

#GULLAHSTRONG, #GEECHEEPROUD!

[@call_mehenry550]

❤️❤️

[@imfromhereiaintcomehere6921]

🪶🪶🪶🪶🪶🪶🪶🏹🦊

[@mehouedeyvonneadjovi-boco6776]

Gu god of Iron, enter my language gbe tche

[@mehouedeyvonneadjovi-boco6776]

Fon gbe from Benin former Dahomey

[@paulholliman4470]

Stole us from our land, then here; stole the land from us.

[@jsd1od]

Change the batteries

[@sonnyjosiah3666]

Your historical explanation is a bit flawed

[@CopperJedi]

I think we need to revise this history because we can prove that people left and went to Africa, they didn't come from Africa... Gullah refers to Guale indian... they are creek or muskogee... many of the tribes left America to colonize Liberia... this started in the 1820s... we really need a good conversation regarding what has been documented and recorded... pan Africanism isn't even an African continent movement, no disrespect, but negros from the states have been pushing this. This is all white Americas teaching, and I can tell that some of the African countries have acquired the white lies taught in history... the ogeechee people are an American tribe... NOT African... they are trying to remove us from our land and force us all in the African continent...

[@citizencoy4393]

Pan Africanism did not come from yt ppl. I do agree with everything else you have said. I am the person that blew the lid on who the Gullah were a few years ago when Africans claimed that afro Americans hated Africans and were disconnected from the culture. I volunteer and am recorder for my family so I remember and was exposed to a lot that others may have never paid attention to. It’s weird to me how ppl r trying to reframe the ppl. Firstly Gullah is the name geechee is the language! Secondly most afro Americans are Gullah and practice their indigenous ways in some shape or form. Many feel unless u r wearing African print and head wraps then u can’t be Gullah and that is the furtherest from the truth! Many maintained the culture while not even knowing! Which was the point of me even throwing the Gullah into the mix. U can find Gullah in every level of American society. Sometimes it’s bold in tradition and understanding …… sometimes it’s bold and colorful with traditional clothing, language, and traditions …. Sometimes it’s just the language with no knowledge of anything else! To try to group us or explain us away the way other nations moved and thrived does us a great dishonor and chops off so much history and ppl that still embrace their culture 100% while not remembering their name…… Gullah!

[@beecher127]

Give thanks queen mother!

[@metropcs1976]

My Grandmother said we not African. Imma believe her.

[@theblackilluminati2025]

She is NOT Gullah Geechee she can not speak for us

[@jdagreat4595]

No ma’am we are indigenous blacks from America. We were here before africans joined our tribe

[@theblackilluminati2025]

Thank you bro why does everyone keep trying to explain us to ourselves

[@jdagreat4595]

@@theblackilluminati2025 bro its unreal i never seen no shit lik this before fam, it wild

[@ImSnitchingONyou]

It's weird that so many people like u are on comment that they aren't African descent always wind up on videos like this? It's real puzzling, if you're not African descent and "indians"kudos to you keep it moving. 😒

[@TheWatchers318]

Because we are Hebrews and we know it!!! Greek/Hebrew Definitions Strong's #1353: gullah (pronounced gheh-ool-law') feminine passive participle of 1350; redemption (including the right and the object); by implication, relationship:--kindred, redeem, redemption, right. Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon: ּּ ge'ûllâh 1) kindred, redemption, right of redemption, price of redemption 1a) kin, kindred 1b) redemption 1c) right of redemption 1d) price of redemption, redemption price Part of Speech: noun feminine Relation: passive participle of H1350

[@AsukuluMsombo]

Bro wtf this is cap mostly black Americans Gullah came from the Kongo origin short for Angola not sierra Leon or west Africa

[@yusefnegao]

Wrong it was the Senegambian and Sierra Leone

[@yusefnegao]

Look at the food and traditions and language it’s mostly West African, Angolan mostly went to South America

[@victoriaparker1891]

The Gullah and the geechee be 2 whole totally different nations. Nation of “america”. They be not nations from the central & ivory coast of Ethiopia(africa). These nations BE the nations of the south eastern west indies coast(all of Florida included). The Gullah nation was many tribes derived from what is called Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia&a portion for Florida. Geechee be a nation of many tribes from what is called Virginias, Carolinas and most of Florida.

[@indigenoussoul4106]

The so-called Black Americans are the true Indigenous Americans Aborigines (AKA) American Indians...The so-called Black Americans are the Soul culture people of turtle Island... You African s need to take care of your country, Continent of Africa, instead of trying to steal other Indigenous people culture... We as the Indigenous Americans,are fighting a good fight in our own land...you need to courage up and take care of your problems in your country/continent in Africa...

[@theblackilluminati2025]

Yes

[@bigedo123]

400 years of slavery Leaves a strong identity Loss one tries to be something that isn't. You end up with those Indigenous Americans Aborigines or those Black Hebrew.

[@heilongrobinson4160]

No we are not have take a DNA test first before saying I bet it tell you how African you are.

[@lightweight4884]

Sorry but we’re not from Africa. America is our land. Our ancestors are from America and this is our land. We look nothing like Africans. Nothing at all whatsoever.

[@idcbumyb]

They arnt African they are aborigional to America but they may have learned some things from Africa thats where my understand is at

[@sundiataatakakranzambi]

Go somewhere else with your Aboriginal nonsense! The Gullah proudly claim their African heritage.

[@idcbumyb]

@@sundiataatakakranzambi hmm not What I was hearing running around telling ppl thier cultural heritage is nonsense is very insensitive and if u don't u think. Besides they say they not theres nothing to get offended about. I seen the video that says that but I seen the ppl that dont claim Africa they claim to have always belonged here with us apparently plus the Atlantic slave trade started in America and it was our bible that was stole and rewritten against us and used against the world so I get your upset bout tiriq but if there r more pressing matters then help seek more truth instead of finding reasons to try and shut ppl up you don't know

[@idcbumyb]

@@sundiataatakakranzambi they prob was our ppl from the start traveled to Africa and got sold back home thats not unlikely

[@idcbumyb]

@@sundiataatakakranzambi kzbin.info/www/bejne/pJKnm4eZZtNresU I'm just showing its more that saying no

[@idcbumyb]

@@sundiataatakakranzambi kzbin.info/www/bejne/sJaUqYCkaLdkZpY its other ppl with info out here

[@ahmeddiagne5142]

We invite you to Islam where colour does not determine the rank but righteousness.

[@freemind5454]

What?😢

[@ineedsatoshis2403]

NOTHING TO DO WITH AFRICA EUROPE YES. STOP THIS MISINFORMATION

[@theblackilluminati2025]

Thank you Gael / Gaul / Gallic we came from Egypt to Portugal up thru west Europe and then America

[@therealtyronehill]

My people ❤