An Oral History with Chief Se'Khu Gentle. June 22, 2012

Location:
St. Augustine, Florida and surrounding areas. Date: June 20-23, 2012 National Park Service.
National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program, Southeast Region.
On behalf of the National Park Service, the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program collected oral histories from participants of the NPS conference June 20 through 23, 2012. Here we hear Chief Se'Khu Gentle interviewed by Dr. Paul Ortiz on June 22, 2012.
Information provided by the National Park Service:
Borders and the movement across them by southern freedom seekers are also very crucial to our understanding of the complexities of the Underground Railroad. Freedom seekers often sought out political and geographical borderlands, as crossing these locations usually represented the divide between slavery and freedom. To this end, the conference will explore how southern freedom seekers seized opportunities to escape slavery into Spanish Florida and the Seminole Nation, to the Caribbean Islands, and into the western borderlands of Indian Territory, Texas, and Mexico.
Escape from enslavement was not just about physical freedom, but also about the search for cultural autonomy. The conference will explore the transformation and creation of new cultural identities among southern freedom seekers that occurred as a result of their journeys to freedom, such as the dispersal of Gullah Geechee culture and the formation of Black Seminole cultural identity. The conference seeks to create a cultural, historical, and interpretive exchange between domestic and international descendent communities of southern freedom seekers.
Samuel Proctor Oral History Program
Director, Paul Ortiz
241 Pugh Hall • PO Box 115215
University of Florida
352-392-7168
CAT. NO. URR 013 Chief Se'Khu Gentle 6-22-2012
December, 2019
oral.history.ufl.edu

Пікірлер: 130

  • @queavisyoung9663
    @queavisyoung966311 ай бұрын

    As a Yamassee Warrior of the Oconee River, I see you chief 🪶

  • @MALITHEGREATOFFICIAL

    @MALITHEGREATOFFICIAL

    9 ай бұрын

    Family!!

  • @franklinkettle6853

    @franklinkettle6853

    12 күн бұрын

    😂LMAO AT YALL

  • @theresagosha201
    @theresagosha20110 ай бұрын

    My great grandfather was a herbalist and he cured his daughter and grandchild of cancer and another serious disease using his herbs. He was indigenous to this land. By the way he was black as coal 😊

  • @Graceamazimg
    @Graceamazimg10 ай бұрын

    “It was not that long ago.”..Let us continue this legacy

  • @TommyStrategic
    @TommyStrategic2 жыл бұрын

    I’m so glad I came across this!! My grandmother described her father and grandmother as Indian, but when she was orphaned, she and siblings were absorbed by her mother’s Gullah-Geechee family. The connections I’m hearing are enlightening and encouraging. I’ve been wanting to learn more about the missing indigenous heritage in our family but had no starting point. This video clarifies so much. 🙏🏾

  • @jeffreygay4456

    @jeffreygay4456

    10 ай бұрын

    The Gullah had an old folk song that held a secret until very recent. The song was "Kumbaya" the mystery is in the English interspersed in the song. "Come by here My LORD" In fact what others believe myself included was that it was the british misinterpretation of the words "Kummah Yah" meaning Come here Yah (abbreviation for Yahawah)....a hebrew language dialect😊

  • @raptorleafMedication

    @raptorleafMedication

    9 ай бұрын

    ​@jeffreygay4456 Thank you for that gem brother. That statement makes so much sense to me. I must do further research on this.

  • @eld4012

    @eld4012

    8 ай бұрын

    Gullah-Geechee and Yamasse are the same people. The chief mention the Yamasse war of 1715, I only new of the Gullah wars of 1715 until a few years ago which I found out was the same. There's a place in South Carolina called Yamasse.

  • @FreespiritRbelle

    @FreespiritRbelle

    8 ай бұрын

    ​@@eld4012 Exactly. Same ppl....Guale are the Gulla Gheechee. Ive read aboit these pplz years ago. Also Chief said it years ago in an interview. But since then he has changed now claiming they are African. They're Indian with admixture of indigenous so called black European blood. But i guess some back door deal went down that made him switch up. After all the queen if Gullah Gheechee has been working with the very enemy of our people. After that it's a WRAP. Only the real elder folk in deep south away from the foolishness will we hear truth .

  • @mijilstylz
    @mijilstylz Жыл бұрын

    Thank you....Yamasee,Gullah,Cherokee..🛖💪🏾✊🏿🎯🥁

  • @BJosephto

    @BJosephto

    2 ай бұрын

    The Cherokee betrayed the Yamasee for the British and the colonists. Without them doing this during the Yamasee war, all enslavement on the land would have ended.

  • @mijilstylz

    @mijilstylz

    2 ай бұрын

    You mean "redsticks"..i am a true red..my family is AKATE-AKONI....THE MOTHERS MOTHERS SIDE IS AUNIYUNWIYA-(Engish/Irish Settlers)...not all ..certain ones sold our tribes out..im also white stick "Wacoochee"-Mothers fathers side......THE "WESTO"-The worst i have read..so far....My sc native family are related to andrew jackson(Evil settler killed up my tribes)....IM 4GEN REDSTICK!!!!

  • @mijilstylz

    @mijilstylz

    2 ай бұрын

    @@BJosephto Auniyunwiya has many clans..which clan are you speaking on..im from Out TOWN(North East)...we have Tsalagi,Tallawegi,Auniyunwiya..and many others.

  • @yankone6167
    @yankone61673 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely amazing video, its about time family!

  • @nileoracle
    @nileoracle8 күн бұрын

    Thank you..great Spirit Bless you

  • @CynthiePompey9999
    @CynthiePompey999910 ай бұрын

    The Honorable Chief is speaking the truth. Cynthie the negie waking Buddha. I'm not Minority nor African American nor native American nor black blac in old gigish English mean pink skin people. We called us negie the Spanish incoming immigrants called us American Indian or ne-gro Indian. Father Trinidad Tobago negie, mother negie Waco Texas farmers Clinton farms. Farmers. ( Kelley/kelly) Mother died poor due to stolen land Allotments. Cynthie the negie waking Buddha

  • @neternafu1904
    @neternafu19043 жыл бұрын

    I am Yamassee!!!

  • @TheBuddingLotusexp
    @TheBuddingLotusexp10 ай бұрын

    He a whole medicine man.

  • @neternafu1904
    @neternafu19043 жыл бұрын

    Great Interview and Video, Feathers Up!!!!!!

  • @Forever_Standing
    @Forever_Standing2 жыл бұрын

    Family Land is very important to me.

  • @taoistgrandmasterfranklin4210
    @taoistgrandmasterfranklin42108 ай бұрын

    I am an indigenous Arawak native from the West Indies. It's refreshing to see someone speaking about the real heritage of the western hemisphere. One of the things they don't seem to know, or to really understand is that my particular tribe had been in the western hemisphere over 4000 years before the Asiatic tribes came to this part of the world. We often forgotten because we were pushed out of the Americas and ended up most of us in the West Indies Caribbean's, and even some cut all the way to the Polynesian Island. Of all the European try to commit genocide in our people some of us did survive. It has stories passed down. We do remember, thank you again for bringing out some of the real history of the dark skin people. Who are the first inheritance of this land? We are not Indians. We are indigenous tribal native of these lands. We have many different names, language, and culture, but we are from the same root. Thank you for bringing this conversation to the forefront and I look forward to listening to your podcast and perhaps in the future have a conversation with you.

  • @daphneytennard3267

    @daphneytennard3267

    7 ай бұрын

    You came from Africa according to your British Census...not America

  • @taoistgrandmasterfranklin4210

    @taoistgrandmasterfranklin4210

    7 ай бұрын

    I yield to your great wisdom? Apparently, you know more about my family and Heritage than I do. You probably was there at my birth 72 years ago and you knew all of my ancestors.@@daphneytennard3267 I would like you to name one of my family members that you personally know that came from Africa. You may not realize this, but most of the history that people read about is written by the British or some other European. Native history and story is an oral tradition. It is a tradition that you live on a day-to-day basis and family. It determines you focus on life and how you approach it. If you live within the native confines, you would have a better understanding. Regardless, what the British, or the European say, we're a proud people, but we're not Africans where descendants from the land they gave us water to quench our thirst and food to satisfy our hunger, you may believe what the British and the European tells you, but if you believe that, you also believe that every human being on earth is descended from Africa. No one knows for sure, because we did not witness it ourselves. I know who I am, and the customs and traditions I went through, but you believe and get your information from the British and European census.

  • @catherinewoods4601

    @catherinewoods4601

    3 ай бұрын

    @@daphneytennard3267stop being disrespectful to the elder. He says who he is, not you. Focus on who you are🤡

  • @Forever_Standing
    @Forever_Standing2 жыл бұрын

    Such a inspiring interview

  • @KingHasecoll
    @KingHasecoll8 ай бұрын

    It’s crazy my great grandma use to make those blankets when I was a kid.

  • @daphneytennard3267

    @daphneytennard3267

    7 ай бұрын

    What's crazy about it?

  • @PTM720
    @PTM7209 ай бұрын

    I love it, indeed... Respect 🏹💪🏾📢🦅👍🏾✌🏾

  • @nileoracle
    @nileoracle8 күн бұрын

    Much love

  • @flyartism3112
    @flyartism31122 жыл бұрын

    Much love family

  • @flyartism3112
    @flyartism31122 жыл бұрын

    My ancestors live on the Okmulkee

  • @DestinyTheOpenDoor
    @DestinyTheOpenDoor6 ай бұрын

    Thanks for the entire scope of this interview. I was only able to see short snippets of it! I enjoy such a powerful message coming forth from Chief Se’Khu! Thank you 🙏🏽 Tamia

  • @tiffanyjohnson140
    @tiffanyjohnson1403 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for sharing :D

  • @daphneytennard3267
    @daphneytennard32679 ай бұрын

    Awesome

  • @neternafu1904
    @neternafu19043 жыл бұрын

    Yamassee Up Galaxy Wide!!!!

  • @theodoreparker3459
    @theodoreparker34597 ай бұрын

    My great grandmother on my father side is Shinnecock and my mother and grandmother were the Geechi people ❤...

  • @rawone870
    @rawone8709 ай бұрын

    Most of my family is from marrianna fl which is north fl we later migrated to okahumpkee fl. How can I get in touch with the chief?

  • @nancydriver8850
    @nancydriver88509 ай бұрын

    Hey Chief, I have a blanket just like that one on your shoulder. 100% acrylic made in Mexico.😂

  • @juliarevilio7178

    @juliarevilio7178

    9 ай бұрын

    Wonder whet they got it from

  • @cosmicmontega1037
    @cosmicmontega10379 ай бұрын

    ❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @TheBuddingLotusexp
    @TheBuddingLotusexp10 ай бұрын

    Yeah that's i grew up too. We over here we happy being ourselves don't bring Caucasian people home and don't eat they food. Yeah we have family in Caribbean too. We maroons and garfunas tainos and arawaks and caribs we know. This whole of America was flooded with so called black people.

  • @BIG-NIIJI_WEST

    @BIG-NIIJI_WEST

    7 ай бұрын

    I just recently learned this about my history but me too! So proud

  • @TerryManyCrows
    @TerryManyCrows8 ай бұрын

    #Niiji Wado Chief Seku.

  • @Newgenentrepreneur
    @Newgenentrepreneur Жыл бұрын

    I'm bokey form Sanford florida

  • @medusasunshine4705
    @medusasunshine47058 ай бұрын

    👀👂🏼

  • @Andre-wf8cb
    @Andre-wf8cb9 ай бұрын

    Somebody left a big mess... Ask somebody else was home 🏡

  • @rawone870
    @rawone8709 ай бұрын

    The interviewer is working for the government

  • @dean3337
    @dean33372 жыл бұрын

    Come here to Oklahoma and present your fable to these Five Civilized Tribes here. I'm Dosar Barkus Band of Black Seminole Federally Recognized, Seminole Nation Of Oklahoma..

  • @elizabethfields6346

    @elizabethfields6346

    Жыл бұрын

    Civilized tribes. It's always interesting that label. Only five were considered civilized and y'all proudly wear that. Interesting.

  • @carbon6951

    @carbon6951

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@elizabethfields6346 They were called "Civilized" because the European settlers told them the only way they'll be considered Civilized is for them to participate in 4 things.. 1) Convert to Christianity... 2) Learn English.. 3) Get a plot of land and farm it/ Agriculture... 4) Last but not least : "OWN SLAVES"... This is something most people who are proud of the term "civilized tribe" never speaks about, for obvious reasons..

  • @soapytongue

    @soapytongue

    9 ай бұрын

    Yes we do 🎉🎉

  • @dean3337

    @dean3337

    9 ай бұрын

    @elizabethfields6346 So tell us about the Yamassee who are extinct as a Tribe and there are no one today who are Historically nor Genetically linked to them who were participants of the Slave Trade

  • @kavallgoldman1103

    @kavallgoldman1103

    9 ай бұрын

    You must be stupid or white

  • @blackout4203
    @blackout420310 ай бұрын

    Speaking of "Medication." 👀😅😅😅

  • @Scoogi
    @Scoogi9 ай бұрын

    Stop mocking us, we had enough of the lies...black ppl the true. Indigenous folks

  • @flyartism3112
    @flyartism31122 жыл бұрын

    My big ma told me the same thing, don’t trust the pale face

  • @michealbaskerville8832

    @michealbaskerville8832

    10 ай бұрын

    WORD 🤘🏿

  • @user-cq9fl8wb3d

    @user-cq9fl8wb3d

    9 ай бұрын

    😂😂 delusional ignorance at its best 🤡😜😝

  • @sheltinamcdaniels2290

    @sheltinamcdaniels2290

    8 ай бұрын

    Don't trust the Black Face.

  • @TheWeaponx9
    @TheWeaponx9 Жыл бұрын

    #FreeDrYork he IS INNOCENT

  • @michealbaskerville8832

    @michealbaskerville8832

    10 ай бұрын

    🕯️🕯️🕯️ 🪘RAAHUBATT ✨ 💪🏿👽🤘🏿✨🛸

  • @michealbaskerville8832
    @michealbaskerville883210 ай бұрын

    🪘RAAHUBATT💪🏿👑👽👑🤘🏿

  • @flyartism3112
    @flyartism31122 жыл бұрын

    For the record Harriet Tubman was a fictional character

  • @jalilali9623

    @jalilali9623

    2 жыл бұрын

    Facts fabricated story

  • @thebronzeripper8403

    @thebronzeripper8403

    Жыл бұрын

    Tell that to her family descendants

  • @614GTRjr

    @614GTRjr

    9 ай бұрын

    ​@@thebronzeripper8403 who are her descendants and what do they have besides their word that they are or that she wasn't just some actor/mascot?

  • @Rafael-zl7fh
    @Rafael-zl7fh9 ай бұрын

    The FACTS ARE that afrer the ARAVITE destroyed the Damasche city of the ISHMAEL people we severed all ties with Arabia, becoming the ANDALUZ of Hispania 711-1510, and participated in the conquest of the Amakora societies.(not America!). We became the black Conquistadores, like Pedro Alvarado in Guatamala (all Central America).

  • @strangecoasteroutdoors799
    @strangecoasteroutdoors7992 ай бұрын

    1. Mint is from the Mediterranean so how is that a “native american medicine” 2. If they are a southeastern tribe then why is he dressed like a Comanche?

  • @franklinkettle6853
    @franklinkettle685312 күн бұрын

    OMG NOT THE CON ARTIST LMAO THEY KNOW HES NOT FEDERALLY RECOGNIZED

  • @IndigenousAmericanTrucker
    @IndigenousAmericanTrucker9 ай бұрын

    What is he saying when he says some of us have native blood? To me that sounds like he is saying that dark-skinned Indians are not the original. See this is why i hate terms like black Indian. That term suggests that there is another type of Indian that's the original, and that a black Indian is one who is accepted by the other Indian. We don't have indigenous blood, we are Indigenous and are blood is Indigenous too!

  • @dean3337
    @dean33372 жыл бұрын

    I'm a Black Seminole who reside in Oklahoma (Indian Territory).. Black Seminoles are not related to Yamassee People.. These imposters want to be Black Seminoles because of our significant History in the Everglades with the full blood Seminoles... No Indigenous Nations speaks of matriarchs... Dude you are a fraud, Yamassee are not associated with Seminoles or Black Seminoles.. Your typical attire and makeup on your face is not of Southeastern Indigenous Tribes. WTF..

  • @blackout4203

    @blackout4203

    Жыл бұрын

    👆🏾

  • @elizabethfields6346

    @elizabethfields6346

    Жыл бұрын

    There are always exceptions to the rules and Im glad you can come on here stating you are well versed in every tradition of every native American tribe and the 3-4 ppl who liked this statement. I love to learn so I'm gonna look into it more but where are your sources.

  • @dean3337

    @dean3337

    Жыл бұрын

    @@elizabethfields6346 We are well documented here in Oklahoma City at the Oklahoma Historical Society Five Civilized Tribes Of Oklahoma and the Seminole Nation Of Oklahoma

  • @pjsmokke

    @pjsmokke

    10 ай бұрын

    Hi jack

  • @pjsmokke

    @pjsmokke

    10 ай бұрын

    Show yourself