As the United States government moved to allow oil and gas companies to use seismic guns to test for offshore oil reserves on the coasts of the Carolinas and Georgia coast, Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation, urged her community to stand up to this threat. Oil exploration and extraction would damage sea life and potentially pollute the coast, which is a critical cultural landscape and national heritage area. Photo credit: Gullah/Geechee Nation
