Afro-American Griot Speaks

<p>Basically this started in 1969-70 while I was on vacation in Houston Texas. I asked my grandfather Nelson Mason Jones Sr. Granddaddy where do we come from and who are we? And he answered They say we are Guitchees. It was said so ominously I did not know whether that was bad like being a criminal or top secret like being a spy. Since then I have heard a number of explanations such as 1) these were Blacks who settled in the islands </p><p>off Louisiana and 2) these were Blacks who were basically English speakers among people whose primary language was not English. You can take your pick of definitions or even add a new one; I'm still not sure what the definition is! </p>