Gullah Geechee 'Queen Quet on St. Helena Island Culture '

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  • čas přidán 3. 03. 2014
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  • @livfredom
    @livfredom Před 5 lety +43

    I am honored to be Gullah Geechee I am learning most of my elders have transitioned I know my ancestors walk with me I am thankful in all for all

    • @thatgeecheechic3464
      @thatgeecheechic3464 Před 2 lety

      🖤💙💚💛

    • @wundergyrl21
      @wundergyrl21 Před rokem +1

      I feel the same! My elders have transitioned. Thankfully, my great-grandmother taught me enough to spark my interest to learn more. 🥰

  • @esthersherman124
    @esthersherman124 Před 4 lety +38

    I am from the Bahamas and it is great to hear you speak - it is just like us - We speak the same way - I have to visit your island sometime - I do hope you can hold on to your culture and be sure to pass it down to the children and impress on them the importance-

  • @DAWintsmith
    @DAWintsmith Před 7 lety +86

    It's horrible to imagine a golf course taking out those beautiful old trees hung with Spanish moss, replacing a deep and lovely culture with generic nothingness. Speak to us, Queen Quet, may your voice be heard.

    • @lorascelsi8102
      @lorascelsi8102 Před 4 lety +4

      Snooty people ruin everything.

    • @izucram2969
      @izucram2969 Před 3 lety +3

      I heard somewhere that the appearance of the moss is a sign of quality air

    • @fifibg
      @fifibg Před 11 měsíci

      so stupid and pointless! they ruined the earth. a golf course does not provide any MEANINGFUL NATURAL resource. money IS NOT a resource.

  • @karenmilton6817
    @karenmilton6817 Před 6 lety +46

    I never head or knew anything about Gullah Geechee, I am African American have never heard
    anything in school or saw in museums about this culture. I am 59 years old will be 60 this year and just within the last 10 year have I had the opportunity to sit under Queen Quet, introduced to me by Sis Sharon Marion, I am intrigues by the importance of remembering your heritage. I don't speak the language but something on the inside of me makes me understand what they are saying. For some reason I feel connected. I thank Queen Quet for keeping this culture alive, she represent it so well, not giving up her language as it it beautiful to me but stretching her self to be able to adapt in any environment around any people. I support you, I love you and pray much for you in your journey. Stay encouraged no matter the jealousy or haters or lack of understanding of many people. Keep on keeping on.

    • @jasminepearls1047
      @jasminepearls1047 Před 5 lety +4

      Gullah Gullah Island.

    • @executivewoman678
      @executivewoman678 Před 4 lety

      Amen. HalleluYah!!

    • @JeanetteFaith
      @JeanetteFaith Před 4 lety

      You should come visit! I am white and live here. Great history here!! Great food as well.

    • @kbryant4985
      @kbryant4985 Před 4 lety +5

      Thank you! I am from Charleston, SC so I've never really knew I had a "cultural identity" until I got older!

    • @thatgeecheechic3464
      @thatgeecheechic3464 Před 2 lety +2

      @@kbryant4985 it’s essential that we pass our cultural identity on to the next generation! It will keep the culture alive and give our children a sense of pride.

  • @sisterphyllis4753
    @sisterphyllis4753 Před 5 lety +16

    I love Gullah Geechee - Geechee language. I long to learn it. I was speaking it when I was little not knowing, it was our norm language. When we journeyed elsewhere is when we were told we talked funny.

  • @Prettyybougiee
    @Prettyybougiee Před 5 lety +19

    I am a Geechee and proud!

  • @Shantassticc
    @Shantassticc Před 4 lety +15

    This Quarantine got me down to the Gullah Geechi Islands sector of CZcams ❤

    • @kbryant4985
      @kbryant4985 Před 4 lety

      Good for you! Knowledge is Powerful!

    • @Shantassticc
      @Shantassticc Před 4 lety

      @@kbryant4985 just a refresher that's all. Beats boredom

  • @gq1448
    @gq1448 Před 4 lety +7

    i live in ga my mom side of the family are temne from sierra leone now i know i have connection with the gullah geechee family

  • @melloyellow1731
    @melloyellow1731 Před 8 lety +29

    I'm so proud to be Gullah geechee . Tenki Queen Nuet for sharing information about my culture that I'm learning about

    • @djjackson6276
      @djjackson6276 Před 3 lety

      I have never in my life been educated on the gullah people in South Carolina!
      The only thing I have heard in my 52 yrs is a song about gullah island sort of like a children's song back in the day.
      This here is just eye-opening now I am wanting to visit gullah Island in South Carolina!

    • @tommybrown1701
      @tommybrown1701 Před 2 lety +2

      Grew up in Freetown, Sierra Leone, and we use the word, Tenki(thank you) in krio.

  • @blessedlife13
    @blessedlife13 Před 4 lety +5

    Proud Gullah/Geechee💞. I'm so praying to be able to go back for heritage 💯🙏

  • @mohamedkamara8153
    @mohamedkamara8153 Před 4 lety +3

    My Sierra Leonean (West Africa) brothers/sisters in the diaspora. The reunion after 400 years of seperation, is on. How oona dae do . How dee body . Oona kusheh.

  • @julietvincent6781
    @julietvincent6781 Před rokem +1

    Gullah Geechee dialect language is connected to whole Caribbean I here Trinidad 🇹🇹 Jamaica 🇯🇲 Barbados 🇧🇧 Guyana 🇬🇾 Grenada 🇬🇩 to many to mention there over 700 hundred Caribbean island we speak English French,Spanish, Creole dialect and our Ancestors are from African .

  • @izucram2969
    @izucram2969 Před 3 lety +4

    This brings me a whole new perspective on cultural reservation, excellent video

  • @alstylz7
    @alstylz7 Před 3 měsíci

    Wow
    When I Was Younger
    I Was Always Told
    I was too Geechee
    Without Explaining What Was
    Geechee
    I Didn't Know That Was My Natural Speech
    Every Once In A While
    I Hear The Geechee Gullah Sound
    I Also Cook Like My Grandmother
    WHO Is Geechee and My Great Grandfather
    That You Would Have To Know Geechee Gullah Very Well To Comprehend
    I'm Just Amazed
    To Be A Part Of The Geechee Gullah Culture
    The Spirit Of The Tongues
    Thank You So Much
    I Pray For The Perservation Of The Geechee Gullah Land Property
    And Most Of All
    The Breath Of The Sacred
    💯💯💯💯💯

  • @mentalispoppinpollard9986

    My dad always said he was Geechie. This is interesting, I'm now going to do some research.

  • @e.adriannapatterson3900
    @e.adriannapatterson3900 Před rokem +1

    I love this. My Daddy taught us about the Gullah Geechees when I was very young. I would listen intently and feel such a connection to these people. We took annual trips to the beach as a family, and there was one particular location we would pass by and he would say, " Those are the Gullah people in our lineage." The people would be on their front porches and wave at us as we slowly drove by. I always wanted Dad to stop so I could go into these people's house's and see how they lived. Call it being intrigued.

  • @myjoyquest
    @myjoyquest Před 4 lety +4

    I still have the shirt I bought after the movie "Daughter's of the dust" wayyyy back in the day! This is my next road trip destination. Hopefully I can volunteer to help work some of the farms. 🧘🏿‍♀️

  • @executivewoman678
    @executivewoman678 Před 4 lety +2

    My next vacation or quick getaway will be to my folk right here! I love it and I love them!!

  • @Bear-of1on
    @Bear-of1on Před 10 měsíci

    I just love this.....Geevhie culture is deep......and particularly Sierra Leone ( Salone ). " How di body ? "

    • @FreespiritRbelle
      @FreespiritRbelle Před měsícem

      That's regurgitated from foreigners.
      Gullah gheechee are Guale...a allegedly dead off ppl.
      Mississippian Culture

  • @DanielUtley-wk6qw
    @DanielUtley-wk6qw Před 10 měsíci

    Great video, keep up the good work!

  • @andreevaillancourt2177
    @andreevaillancourt2177 Před 11 měsíci +1

    As someone who grew up in an Indian Residential School as a girl, I am so happy to hear that their are still people who are living from the land as the Creator has intended for it to be lived upon.
    Up here in 🇨🇦, the government is still handing over our virgin lands to developer friends whenever the mood for money takes them over. So hang tight to what you've got, 'cause once it's gone, there's no bringing it back.
    And thank you for continuing to hold on to these values, and living this lifestyle. You are helping to preserve Turtle Island in its original state. ✌🏽🧓🏽
    By the way, the schools (and other atrocities) have been responsible for annihilating my father's Traditional Indigenous language of his people, because we were the ones that met with the new comers first of all. Take good care. 😊🧓🏽✌🏽

  • @janayjinks6672
    @janayjinks6672 Před 4 lety +2

    My family on my father's side is gullah geechee from the islands

  • @pla4825
    @pla4825 Před 4 lety +1

    I just love this lady energy 🥰

  • @gullahjack4887
    @gullahjack4887 Před 5 lety +2

    Amazing video. We must hold onto "Ring Shout"!!!

  • @d.m.5017
    @d.m.5017 Před rokem

    🙏🏽I've stayed in that area when I was pregnant with my 1st child. Great education & history! Thank you, Brooklyn Love 🗽🏙🇺🇸🇯🇲🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇹🇹🇮🇳🇮🇪🇵🇦🇬🇧🇨🇦🇹🇹💙❤🖤💛💚🧡

  • @yusufbych6308
    @yusufbych6308 Před 4 lety +3

    May God be with you all on st.Helena İsland-May God protect you from taking the wrong path

  • @lawrenceS59
    @lawrenceS59 Před 4 lety +3

    I wish we had the same thoughts on cigarettes as we do on canned food.

    • @lawrenceS59
      @lawrenceS59 Před 2 lety

      @Beautiful mil 2:30 into the video. That's what i'm talkin about. She's talkin about how things impact peoples health then they go to a guy with a cigarette in his mouth.

  • @1975COREY
    @1975COREY Před rokem

    I love this place even though I’ve never been

  • @martinsmith2258
    @martinsmith2258 Před 4 lety +4

    I know of my great grandparents (on both sides) being from Americus and Smithville GA and I just be wondering if the were at least influenced by the Gullah/Geechee cuz they talked like this. That part of Georgia isn’t the gullah/geechee corridor but maybe there’s influence💪🏾

  • @timothyknights303
    @timothyknights303 Před 5 lety

    That's so beautiful!
    💞

    • @thomasford2868
      @thomasford2868 Před 4 lety

      Is there any Guchii a Guchii in Jacksonville, Fl. ?

  • @F4TiMA.
    @F4TiMA. Před 3 lety +5

    I've now come to realise... the gullah language is almost identical to guyanese and carribean injun dialect

  • @goddesspatriciastrong5917

    My family is Guller GeeChee , My mother spoke Geechee.

  • @brendacollins4900
    @brendacollins4900 Před 4 lety

    Do my ancestors that I have met my grandmother is that way of all of them the things they talk about the things that they do I saw in my grandmother my grandfather I can relate with this so well

  • @Classy4514
    @Classy4514 Před rokem

    Love the accent 😍

  • @feminineone9610
    @feminineone9610 Před 4 lety +3

    As a Jamaican... Gullah Geechee is my connection ... letting me know... Slavery was a bitch!!!! If explain how these people sometimes sound like Jamaicans... explain that😏

  • @disco07
    @disco07 Před 4 lety +9

    Queen Quet is really a remarkable and intelligent woman. Unfortunately, the gentrifiers will be along directly and the Gullah culture will be gone. Remember, gentrifiers will buy up the coastline first then starve you out.

    • @myjoyquest
      @myjoyquest Před 4 lety +4

      Not to sound defeatist...in the past, I would say "you're probably right" Today I would say "UNLESS"...we beat them at their own game. It's really not that hard. The illusion and glamour of the past is now unveiled. 🧘🏿‍♀️

    • @disco0752
      @disco0752 Před 4 lety +2

      Good luck. May the Gullah Ghee Chee thrive and proper. Hopefully, the force will be with you. Really like the vids!

  • @zadiegregory3097
    @zadiegregory3097 Před 4 lety

    So true my people amen

  • @carolinafire365
    @carolinafire365 Před 7 lety +1

    love it

  • @wyllyamjohnson3561
    @wyllyamjohnson3561 Před rokem

    Thank you for this information.

  • @ratpH1nk
    @ratpH1nk Před 11 měsíci

    The world needs less, not more, golf courses.

  • @tezmaniangel
    @tezmaniangel Před rokem

    ✊🏿❤️

  • @TheJVelez
    @TheJVelez Před 7 lety +4

    Hunna LUB yoo Queeyun.

    • @TheJVelez
      @TheJVelez Před 7 lety +1

      You met Steph and I several time. (Wife of Ed Mack Jr.) Our mother is from North, S.C. She says "Yunna" . Some of her language is SO similar to yours. She says "Us" but you say WE. WOW. All from the SAME place, though. Awesome!

  • @nina8340
    @nina8340 Před 3 lety

    proud Beaufort Gal!!!!

  • @ronsimmons9658
    @ronsimmons9658 Před 5 lety +4

    My family

  • @angelastewart9497
    @angelastewart9497 Před rokem

    I love to visit just to eat the food and church service would be good for me to

  • @claudiakramer4516
    @claudiakramer4516 Před 3 lety +1

    There needs to be a balance. If you wanna build on gullah land, then pay the tax

  • @ellanina801
    @ellanina801 Před rokem

    It sounds like perfection…this is what it should be like 💖 the new people should go away-leave heaven to be!

  • @anobserver9658
    @anobserver9658 Před 3 měsíci

    I agree with the store-bought food making us sick. They came out with GMO's

  • @winningblack5112
    @winningblack5112 Před 2 lety

    What about wadmalaw Island?

  • @willaliburd9834
    @willaliburd9834 Před 3 lety +1

    Many Gullah Geechee lands are threatened by annual tax sales, the most recent of which was Oct 5, 2020. The community is working hard to raise funds to redeem the land - must be done within 12 months. Many of these areas are underserved with residents in low income professions and unaware of agricultural tax exemptions available. See more here www.islandpacket.com/news/local/article245917760.html. There is also a GoFundMe www.gofundme.com/f/panafricanfamilyem

  • @coreyp.528
    @coreyp.528 Před 3 lety

    Just found out my grand parents are from this Island. I gotta go over there and see it. My dad kept it a secret. He never told me about it. So it's a bit of a mystery. On my mothers side we are Jamaican. Both sides have "jewish" beliefs. I really have some work to do.

  • @F4TiMA.
    @F4TiMA. Před 3 lety

    💛💛💛💛💛🦋💛💛💛💛💛🙏🏿

  • @stephenholder7
    @stephenholder7 Před 2 lety

    We speak gullah in Barbados

  • @tiffanyg3584
    @tiffanyg3584 Před 3 lety +2

    Fast forward the community is being pushed out to build a resort and golf course, it’s so sad. 🙁

    • @willaliburd9834
      @willaliburd9834 Před 3 lety

      I read about the tax sale of Gullah Lands Oct 5, 2020 but also that the property owners have 366 days to pay back taxes and redeem the land. Here is the GoFundMe page. www.gofundme.com/f/panafricanfamilyem

  • @twilightzone-ex-hostage1997

    Beautiful culture and the desire to preserve!

  • @katrinadavis9261
    @katrinadavis9261 Před 5 lety +1

    @QueenQuet hello to you I am reaching out to ask you about the Gullah Geechee Festival in Beaufort South Carolina I live in Washington DC but I do have family in Charleston in the McClellanville area I would love to come and showcase my talent braiding hair braiding have been a passion of mine since childhood I remember sitting on the porch between my grandmother legs what's the wooden brush getting my head in the big chunky dookie plats if possible I would love to connect with you to assist me in that project watching your videos have sincerely help me to understand the tradition in The Roots of my upbringing and where I am from thank you so kindly for that looking forward to connecting with you

    • @nicey725
      @nicey725 Před 4 lety

      The festival's are not the same anymore the white people changed alot of the things we use to do

    • @myjoyquest
      @myjoyquest Před 4 lety

      @@nicey725 🤨WHAT!? That's a damn shame!

  • @ElianaBatyah
    @ElianaBatyah Před 6 lety +4

    Although it’s horrible to hear but the Most High is about to turn our captivity 2019 will mark 400 years as stated in Genisis15:13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;... So look for the hope of mass migration away from these shores after August 2019. Blessings

  • @DawnyDarko
    @DawnyDarko Před 4 lety

    Omg, did that lady just pull off the poor crab's leg off whilst it was still alive lol

  • @antoniofokes5442
    @antoniofokes5442 Před 5 měsíci +1

    We aren’t from Africa tell the people the truth we exposing her

  • @stevieashley9871
    @stevieashley9871 Před 7 lety +7

    Don't teach them Gullah, Geechee they will pervert it.

  • @ronaldjohnson783
    @ronaldjohnson783 Před 3 lety +2

    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.

  • @lesmach6495
    @lesmach6495 Před 4 lety

    That is very sad. Staging a spiritual experience for a bunch of white people to come and gawk at them.

    • @myjoyquest
      @myjoyquest Před 4 lety

      Disgusting...You dont see us running up in their Highlander or Oktoberfest gatherings! Changing things to make us feel a certain way. 😕

  • @antoniofokes5442
    @antoniofokes5442 Před 5 měsíci

    Fake fraud

  • @gyhwh2552
    @gyhwh2552 Před 6 lety

    she is NO queen to da Gullah Geechee, She is NOT our queen! look at her face and C her spirit and soul for what e really is. Ur time is up and the Black Sun has come to bring out truth. Sinc you sold us out to your wicked beliefs, The real truth will reveal your secret parts. gullah queen of the wicked lies.

    • @moeticjustuce
      @moeticjustuce Před 6 lety +1

      when i discovered her videos on youtube, i was curious to know who she really was outside the smiles and colorful outfits... something about her seems darksided..i respect her for keeping the culture alive as i learn about it.. but what is it about her? does she practice withcraft or something? i need to know because i pick up weird vibes as well... something about her face and her spirit is questionable

    • @benniesagittarius7638
      @benniesagittarius7638 Před 6 lety +7

      What a terrible thing to say about a queen. Very disrespectful

    • @ronsimmons9658
      @ronsimmons9658 Před 5 lety +6

      Nuthin is wrong with her, I have met her and her spirit is amazing. Don't judge nobody espcially your own people. To me she didn't sell out. She do, do for our people. Do u live on st. Helena island S.C. if not u don't know what we have gone through and going through to judge for from a video that was explaining our culture in our neighborhood.

    • @eawatahatanguatama383
      @eawatahatanguatama383 Před 5 lety +5

      We don't Know who G Yhwh is other a purple dot trying to speak ill on someone. it could be a little kid in China somewhere so we can't take what he or she is saying seriously. Can't talk a lot of shut but no one knows what it look like. Fuck it's comment

    • @myjoyquest
      @myjoyquest Před 4 lety

      😯 Someone betta catch their fire!!!🔥🤭