The Cajuns The History Of The French Speaking Ethnic Group In Canada And Louisiana

Author : Charles River Editors
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1798401088

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The Cajuns: The History of the French-Speaking Ethnic Group in Canada and Louisiana by Charles River Editors Pdf

*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Deep within the bayous and swamps of Louisiana resides a population descended from an exodus. These people, called Cajuns or Acadians, were expelled from their homelands. Persecuted and homeless, they traveled hundreds of miles south in search of a new home and ultimately settled in the Pelican State, where they made new lives for themselves free from their British conquerors. Though not always warmly welcomed, they were accepted, allowing them to practice their different culture amidst their new neighbors. Though their home has changed flags over the centuries, the people themselves have remained, retaining a culture that goes back several centuries. While people continue to assimilate, some have continued to live same lifestyles their ancestors did for generations, and they continue to fascinate outsiders, so much so that they occasionally end up being featured on the History Channel. The Cajuns: The History of the French-Speaking Ethnic Group in Canada and Louisiana profiles the people, from their origins to their history across North America. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about the Cajuns like never before.

Author : Shane K. Bernard
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781604734966

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The Cajuns by Shane K. Bernard Pdf

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 : Shane K. Bernard
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781496800923

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The Cajuns by Shane K. Bernard Pdf

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 : James H. Dormon,University of Southwestern Louisiana. Center for Louisiana Studies
Publisher : Lafayette, La. : Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Social Science
ISBN : IND:30000007432895

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The People Called Cajuns by James H. Dormon,University of Southwestern Louisiana. Center for Louisiana Studies Pdf

Author : Shane K. Bernard
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-11
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781604733211

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Cajuns and Their Acadian Ancestors by Shane K. Bernard Pdf

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 : William Faulkner Rushton
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1980-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0374515573

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Cajuns by William Faulkner Rushton Pdf

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 : Carl A. Brasseaux
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Cajuns
ISBN : 1617031119

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Acadian to Cajun by Carl A. Brasseaux Pdf

"This work serves as a model for compiling ethnohistories of other nonliterate peoples."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Albert Valdman,Kevin James Rottet
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 934 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781604734041

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Dictionary of Louisiana French by Albert Valdman,Kevin James Rottet Pdf

The Dictionary of Louisiana French (DLF) provides the richest inventory of French vocabulary in Louisiana and reflects precisely the speech of the period from 1930 to the present. This dictionary describes the current usage of French-speaking peoples in the five broad regions of South Louisiana: the coastal marshes, the banks of the Mississippi River, the central area, the north, and the western prairie. Data were collected during interviews from at least five persons in each of twenty-four areas in these regions. In addition to the data collected from fieldwork, the dictionary contains material compiled from existing lexical inventories, from texts published after 1930, and from archival recordings. The new authoritative resource, the DLF not only contains the largest number of words and expressions but also provides the most complete information available for each entry. Entries include the word in the conventional French spelling, the pronunciation (including attested variants), the part of speech classification, the English equivalent, and the word's use in common phrases. The DLF features a wealth of illustrative examples derived from fieldwork and textual sources and identification of the parish where the entry was collected or the source from which it was compiled. An English-to-Louisiana French index enables readers to find out how particular notions would be expressed in la Louisiane .

Author : Ursula Mathis-Moser,Günter Bischof
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Acadians
ISBN : UCBK:C110424635

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Acadians and Cajuns by Ursula Mathis-Moser,Günter Bischof Pdf

Author : Carl A. Brasseaux
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807147788

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French, Cajun, Creole, Houma by Carl A. Brasseaux Pdf

In recent years, ethnographers have recognized south Louisiana as home to perhaps the most complex rural society in North America. More than a dozen French-speaking immigrant groups have been identified there, Cajuns and white Creoles being the most famous. In this guide to the amazing social, cultural, and linguistic variation within Louisiana's French-speaking region, Carl A. Brasseaux presents an overview of the origins and evolution of all the Francophone communities. Brasseaux examines the impact of French immigration on Louisiana over the past three centuries. He shows how this once-undesirable outpost of the French empire became colonized by individuals ranging from criminals to entrepreneurs who went on to form a multifaceted society -- one that, unlike other American melting pots, rests upon a French cultural foundation. A prolific author and expert on the region, Brasseaux offers readers an entertaining history of how these diverse peoples created south Louisiana's famous vibrant culture, interacting with African Americans, Spaniards, and Protestant Anglos and encountering influences from southern plantation life and the Caribbean. He explores in detail three still cohesive components in the Francophone melting pot, each one famous for having retained a distinct identity: the Creole communities, both black and white; the Cajun people; and the state's largest concentration of French speakers -- the Houma tribe. A product of thirty years' research, French, Cajun, Creole, Houma provides a reliable and understandable guide to the ethnic roots of a region long popular as an international tourist attraction.

Author : John A. Cross
Publisher : Springer
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319540092

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Ethnic Landscapes of America by John A. Cross Pdf

This volume provides a comprehensive catalog of how various ethnic groups in the United States of America have differently shaped their cultural landscape. Author John Cross links an overview of the spatial distributions of many of the ethnic populations of the United States with highly detailed discussions of specific local cultural landscapes associated with various ethnic groups. This book provides coverage of several ethnic groups that were omitted from previous literature, including Italian-Americans, Chinese-Americans, Japanese-Americans, and Arab-Americans, plus several smaller European ethnic populations. The book is organized to provide an overview of each of the substantive ethnic landscapes in the United States. Between its introduction and conclusion, which looks towards the future, the chapters on the various ethnic landscapes are arranged roughly in chronological order, such that the timing of the earliest significant surviving landscape contribution determines the order the groups will be viewed. Within each chapter the contemporary and historical spatial distribution of the ethnic groups are described, the historical geography of the group’s settlement is reviewed, and the salient aspects of material culture that characterize or distinguish the group’s ethnic landscape are discussed. Ethnics Landscapes of America is designed for use in the classroom as a textbook or as a reader in a North American regional course or a cultural geography course. This volume also can function as a detailed summary reference that should be of interest to geographers, historians, ethnic scholars, other social scientists, and the educated public who wish to understand the visible elements of material culture that various ethnic populations have created on the landscape.

Author : Clint Bruce,Jennifer Gipson
Publisher : Hippocrene Books
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0781809150

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Cajun French-English, English-Cajun French Dictionary & Phrasebook by Clint Bruce,Jennifer Gipson Pdf

Presents 3,800 terms in English and Cajun French and includes a historical overview of Cajun French, frequently asked questions about the language, a pronunciation guide, basic grammar, and essential phrases.

Author : Dean W. Jobb
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780470739617

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The Cajuns by Dean W. Jobb Pdf

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.

Author : Brian St.Claire-King,Carl Warner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-15
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780971309562

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Hoodoo Blues the Role Playing Game by Brian St.Claire-King,Carl Warner Pdf

Hoodoo Blues is a Role Playing Game of supernatural beliefs from America's Old South. Players play the ageless, those who have lived through (sometimes suffered through) decades or centuries of Southern history.

Author : Jonathan K. Gosnell
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803285279

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Franco-America in the Making by Jonathan K. Gosnell Pdf

"A study of the manifestation and persistence of hybrid Franco-American literary, musical, culinary, and media cultures in North America, particularly New England and southern Louisiana"--