Cajuns And Their Acadian Ancestors
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Author | : Shane K. Bernard |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 2010-02-11 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1604733217 |
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Cajuns and Their Acadian Ancestors: A Young Reader's History traces the four-hundred-year history of this distinct American ethnic group. While written in a format comprehensible to junior-high and high-school students, it will prove appealing and informative as well to adult readers seeking a one-volume exploration of these remarkable people and their predecessors. The narrative follows the Cajuns' early ancestors, the Acadians, from seventeenth-century France to Nova Scotia, where they flourished until British soldiers expelled them in a tragic event called Le Grand Dérangement (The Great Upheaval)—an episode regarded by many historians as an instance of ethnic cleansing or genocide. Up to one-half of the Acadian population died from disease, starvation, exposure, or outright violence in the expulsion. Nearly three thousand survivors journeyed through the thirteen American colonies to Spanish-controlled Louisiana. There they resettled, intermarried with members of the local population, and evolved into the Cajun people, who today number over a half-million. Since their arrival in Louisiana, the Cajuns have developed an unmistakable identity and a strong sense of ethnic pride. In recent decades they have contributed their exotic cuisine and accordion-and-fiddle dance music to American popular culture. Cajuns and Their Acadian Ancestors: A Young Reader's History includes numerous images and over a dozen sidebars on topics ranging from Cajun music to Mardi Gras.
Author | : Shane K. Bernard |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2009-09-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1496800923 |
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The past sixty years have shaped and reshaped the group of French-speaking Louisiana people known as the Cajuns. During this period, they have become much like other Americans and yet have remained strikingly distinct. The Cajuns: Americanization of a People explores these six decades and analyzes the forces that had an impact on Louisiana's Acadiana. In the 1940s, when America entered World War II, so too did the isolated Cajuns. Cajun soldiers fought alongside troops from Brooklyn and Berkeley and absorbed aspects of new cultures. In the 1950s as rock 'n' roll and television crackled across Louisiana airwaves, Cajun music makers responded with their own distinct versions. In the 1960s, empowerment and liberation movements turned the South upside down. During the 1980s, as things Cajun became an absorbing national fad, “Cajun” became a kind of brand identity used for selling everything from swamp tours to boxed rice dinners. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, the advent of a new information age launched “Cyber-Cajuns” onto a worldwide web. All these forces have pushed and pulled at the fabric of Cajun life but have not destroyed it. A Cajun himself, the author of this book has an intense personal fascination in his people. By linking seemingly local events in the Cajuns' once isolated south Louisiana homeland to national and even global events, Bernard demonstrates that by the middle of the twentieth century the Cajuns for the first time in their ethnic story were engulfed in the currents of mainstream American life and yet continued to make outstandingly distinct contributions.
Author | : Marie Lundquist |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2014-10-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781680260007 |
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Author | : Timothy Hebert |
Publisher | : Center for L Siana |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Michael B. Melanson |
Publisher | : Lanesville Pub. |
Total Pages | : 1066 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : |
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Melanson-Melançon: The Genealogy of an Acadian and Cajun Family documents the Melanson, Melançon and Melancon descendants of brothers Pierre and Charles Mellanson from their arrival in Acadia (today, Nova Scotia) in 1657 through the nineteenth and into the early twentieth centuries.
Author | : William Faulkner Rushton |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1980-09-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780374515577 |
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The Cajuns of Louisiana are a people descended from one of the earliest colonies of European North Americans. Their ancestors, the Acadians, established a French-speaking settlement around Canada's Bay of Fundy in 1604 -- several years before Jamestown. In 1755, their community was decimated in one of American history's most brutal and sordid episodes, known to the Cajuns as Le Grand Dérangement. English soldiers seized the inhabitants of entire towns, arbitrarily splitting up Acadian families and shipping them south. The Cajuns traces both the Acadian roots of these staunchly independent people and the exodus of their refugee descendants into the physically and politically challenging bayou country of colonial Louisiana.
Author | : John Mack Faragher |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 609 |
Release | : 2006-02-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0393242439 |
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"Altogether superb: an accessible, fluent account that advances scholarship while building a worthy memorial to the victims of two and a half centuries past." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) In 1755, New England troops embarked on a "great and noble scheme" to expel 18,000 French-speaking Acadians ("the neutral French") from Nova Scotia, killing thousands, separating innumerable families, and driving many into forests where they waged a desperate guerrilla resistance. The right of neutrality; to live in peace from the imperial wars waged between France and England; had been one of the founding values of Acadia; its settlers traded and intermarried freely with native Mikmaq Indians and English Protestants alike. But the Acadians' refusal to swear unconditional allegiance to the British Crown in the mid-eighteenth century gave New Englanders, who had long coveted Nova Scotia's fertile farmland, pretense enough to launch a campaign of ethnic cleansing on a massive scale. John Mack Faragher draws on original research to weave 150 years of history into a gripping narrative of both the civilization of Acadia and the British plot to destroy it.
Author | : William Faulkner Rushton |
Publisher | : New York : Farrar Straus Giroux |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 1979-01-01 |
Genre | : Acadians |
ISBN | : 9780374118174 |
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The Cajuns of Louisiana are a people descended from one of the earliest colonies of European North Americans. Their ancestors, the Acadians, established a French-speaking settlement around Canada's Bay of Fundy in 1604 -- several years before Jamestown. In 1755, their community was decimated in one of American history's most brutal and sordid episodes, known to the Cajuns as Le Grand Dérangement. English soldiers seized the inhabitants of entire towns, arbitrarily splitting up Acadian families and shipping them south. The Cajuns traces both the Acadian roots of these staunchly independent people and the exodus of their refugee descendants into the physically and politically challenging bayou country of colonial Louisiana.
Author | : Timothy Hebert |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Acadians |
ISBN | : 9781450566346 |
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Assists people of Cajun descent in doing genealogical research, going back through the Exile of the 1700s to the Acadians of Canada.
Author | : Dean W. Jobb |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2010-01-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0470739614 |
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One of the darkest events in Canadian history is replete with the drama of war, politics and untold human suffering. Starting in 1755, 10,000 people of French ancestry were expelled from their homes along Canada's east coast by a tyrannical British governor with the complicity of American sympathizers. While some Acadians returned home to try to evade capture and forge a living, others made their way to the Spanish colony of Louisiana, where they farmed and fished and began the vibrant "Cajun" culture that is renowned around the world. Award-winning author Dean Jobb has written a dramatic and compelling account of "Le grand derangement" -- the event that was immortalized in Longfellow's famous poem "Evangeline." Jobb brings a cast of characters to life so vividly that the reader is immediately captured by their stories. The richness of detail is remarkable. The quality of writing is cinematic. The year 2005 marks the 250th anniversary of the expulsion. This book is a bridge across the centuries for the descendants of a founding people of this nation, whose courage and resourcefulness still resonate in modern-day Acadie.