The Cajuns
from Acadia to Louisiana
by William Faulkner Rushton
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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.
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Cajuns, Social life and customs, Acadians, Louisiana wildllife, HistoryPeople
Jean Lafitte, British CrownPlaces
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The Cajuns: from Acadia to Louisiana
1979, Farrar Straus Giroux
in English
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0374118175 9780374118174
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Bibliography: p. 335-342.
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The Cajuns is a very enlightening book on the food, music, and culture of one of America's most intriguing groups; this book covers, among many subjects the great political madness that saw the Acadians ejected from their Canadian homes and holdings by the English Crown, and describes the ingenuity and spirit they approached their challenges with, and how that ingenuity and spirit has served their descendants, the Cajuns.
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