A Journey to Preserve Gullah/Geec...
A Journey to Preserve Gullah/Geechee Language & Culture From SC to Harvard Univ.

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Sunn m’Cheaux is a native of a Gullah/Geechee Family from Mt Holly, South Carolina. He is an artist, actor, writer, poet, singer skater, chef, conversationalist and is on a journey to preserve the Gullah/Geechee language, the culture, the family land and “Mama’s House”. Sunn m’Cheaux has the prestigious honor, to teach 7th graders from Cambridge Public Schools cultural roots, identity and language, inside Harvard Hall at Harvard University. He says his goal for his classroom is to be a space of learning & living the languages he teaches. Growing up on land owned and tended by his family dating back to 1850, Sunn m’Cheaux tells the story of how his great grandfather planted an oak tree that now towers above Rural Low Country Land, family land. “Mama’s House”  as he affectionately refers to it, was the heart of the community, having her chicken coops  ... 
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Sunn m’ CheauxHarvard TeacherHarvard UniversityGullah/Geechee languageSouth Carolina Gullah Culture