The Epicenter.
Welteh (Settra Kru) is the first Liberian Indigenous town to appear on European maps around the 1500s and 1600s. People have been living here since before that time, engaged in fishing, farming, and trading. Settra Kru was the epicenter of Krao resistance to the Liberian government in the 1800s and 1900s and provided some of the best warriors and sailors who are memorialized in oral traditions.
Our work in Settra Kru aims to understand how people settled this area, traded with other groups on the ocean and inland, and moved around over time in response to changing environmental conditions and sociopolitical relationships. We're looking at old village sites, coastal trade, and the relationships with surrounding towns, as we work alongside young students, fishers, and farmers of all ages and genders.
Our work also takes us to Fishtown and Nyanpoh Beach, towns around the area of Settra Kru with similar histories of trade and relationship to the coast and the inland.
Our work in Settra Kru aims to understand how people settled this area, traded with other groups on the ocean and inland, and moved around over time in response to changing environmental conditions and sociopolitical relationships. We're looking at old village sites, coastal trade, and the relationships with surrounding towns, as we work alongside young students, fishers, and farmers of all ages and genders.
Our work also takes us to Fishtown and Nyanpoh Beach, towns around the area of Settra Kru with similar histories of trade and relationship to the coast and the inland.
