Red river sankofa project

What is Sankofa?

A symbol of understanding the past to plan for the future (literal meaning: go back to fetch it)

Sankofa is part of traditional Akan wisdom and represents a cultural link between the living and the dead, the past and present and the present linked to the future. A bird looking backward so that its beak points to his tail represents Sankofa.

Sankofa Bird

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What's New?

• Added 08/28/09

  19 new cemeteries added
  

• Added 08/11/09

  Days at Chicora Plantation
  This plantation was previously owned by the Adger family in Bossier Parish. The published article was written by Breck Bickham.
  

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  The Robertson Family

About the project

The Red River Sankofa Project is committed to connecting and honoring our ancestral ties to NW Louisiana and NE Texas by focusing on burial ground preservation. This rather remote, but bountiful area along the upper Red River of Louisiana and along the Texas Louisiana border has long been forgotten in historical text therefore we are dedicated towards sharing the rich stories and contributions of our African American ancestors who settled the area. Please explore the site and if you would like to contribute stories, history, pictures, cemetery transcriptions and any other record that would tie your ancestor(s) to the area, feel free to send them to info@redriversankofa.org.

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