New York Times features the Gullah/Geechee Nation's Coastal Protection Work
Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition
HEADS UP! Check out this The New York Times article that includes Queen Quet Marquetta L. Goodwine of the Gullah/Geechee Nation and our work to protect our ocean and waterways!
“We have our own language, we have our own food ways, we have our own ecological system here,” said Marquetta Goodwine, the elected head of the Gullah/Geechee people and a leader in efforts to protect and restore the coastline. That distinctive culture, she said, depends on things like the oyster beds, the native grasses and the maritime forests that characterize the seashore and the scores of tidal and barrier islands here, collectively known as the Sea Islands.
“You don’t have that, you don’t have a Sea Island,” said Ms. Goodwine, who also goes by Queen Quet. “You don’t have a Sea Island, you don’t have Gullah/Geechee culture.”