Take a virtual visit through the Gullah/Geechee story of historic St. Helena Island, South Carolina. In the words of Queen Quet, Gullah/Geechee Chieftess and Head-of-State: “The essence of the Gullah/Geechee legacy that we continue to fight to hold onto is captured within every layer of this story map.”

Launched in January 2018, Kawe Gidaa-naanaagadawendaamin Manoomin (First We Must Consider Manoomin/Psin) is a collaboration among tribes, intertribal treaty organizations, and University of Minnesota faculty, staff, and students, that prioritizes tribal views on the cultural significance and ecology of Manoomin / Psiη (Wild Rice), and the policies related to it.

After producing a zine on “Black Water Ecologies” in spring 2021, this year I followed up with a booklet of poetry! The poems explore Black life and Water at sites such as memory, ceremony, queerness, resistance, oppression, and freedom.