Myths of the World

The  Wolof tribe i n  Senegal ,  the Gambia , and southwestern coastal  Mauritania . In Senegal, the Wolof are the largest ethnic group (~39.7%), while elsewhere they are a minority.  They refer to themselves as  Wolof  and speak the  Wolof language , in the  West Atlantic  branch of the  Niger–Congo family  of languages.  Their early history is unclear. The earliest documented mention of the Wolof is found in the records of 15th-century, Portuguese-financed Italian traveller   Alvise Cadamosto , who mentioned well-established Islamic Wolof chiefs advised by Muslim counselors.   The Wolof belonged to the medieval-era   Wolof Empire   of the   Senegambia   region.  Details of the pre-Islamic religious traditions of the Wolof are unknown, and their oral traditions state them to have been adherents of Islam since the founding   king of Jolof .   However, historical evidence left by Islamic scholars and European travelers suggest that Wolof warriors and rulers did not initially convert to

  The  Washitaw Nation  ( Washitaw de Dugdahmoundyah ) is an African-American group associated with the  Moorish Science Temple of America  who claim to be a  sovereign state  of  Native Americans  within the boundaries of the  United States  of America. Their name is appropriated from that of the  Ouachita tribe ,  who are also eponymous of the  Washita River  and of  Washita ,  Oklahoma . The group is part of the  sovereign citizen movement , whose members generally believe that they are not subject to any  statutes  or proceedings at the  federal ,  state , or municipal levels.  The Washitaw Nation was headed by Verdiacee Hampton Goston (also known as Verdiacee Turner, and as Empress Verdiacee Tiari Washitaw Turner Goston El-Bey, c. 1927–2014).  She was mayor of  Richwood, Louisiana  in 1975 and 1976, and again from 1980 to 1984,  and is the author of the self-published book  Return of the Ancient Ones  (1993). Goston asserted that the  United Nations  "registers the Washitaw a