What on Earth Happened to the Acadians/Cajuns?
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- Опубліковано 23 чер 2020
- What on Earth happened to the Acadians, better known in most of the United States as the Cajuns? Hundreds of years ago, there was a distinct territory and culture that developed in North America that was a product of French imperialism, located in what is now modern day Canada. However, after conflicts with the British, their descendants had one of the most dramatic and interesting tales of trials and tribulations seen in any community in the US or Canada.
In today's video we're going to be discussing the history of the Acadians and what happened to their modern day descendants, such as the Cajuns, and how and why they ended up where they did, with many of these Acadian refugees ending up all across the globe. Thanks for watching!
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Here’s a fun fact: Boudreaux and Thibodeaux jokes exist in both south Louisiana and in Nova Scotia suggesting that the jokes are a centuries old tradition.
New England Acadian here. Heard my firest Thibodeaux joke from a Cajun I met at a crawfish boil in New Orleans a couple years ago!
T Landry According to a couple nova scotians, yeah. Pretty interesting.
I’m glad my dad left me. Now I get to keep my moms maiden name , boudreaux.
The only boudreau I know is called Chance. He has an epic mullet and loves pumching snakes in the face.
We wrote a stage play titled: Boudreaux and Thibodeaux's Wedding
it's interesting how most of the French in Louisiana are actually originally from Nova Scotia rather than france
Via France
Andre Cailloux, I know, but it’s not like French Canadians popped up out of thin air in America. They had an origin in Europe. I had their origins in mind when I said what I said. Yes, I understand they are now separate from France politically.
More specifically from Nantes, on seven ships in 1785.
we're still french
viva la france
et vive le republique du francais
(my french is kinda sloppy, i'm still learning but still)
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and PEI actually. We lived throughout L'Acadie
We’re still out here!
Nick Lorraine yeah people seem to think we disappeared or something
Still here but slowly dying out. When the language dies I think the culture dies. Everything that we have here is in French, music, art, entertainment and I think if that goes, so does the rest of it. Lâchez pas
Le bonjour de France, mes amis!
Etienne4201 bonjour de Lousiane!
Still here too. We no longer speak French though
Louisiana Cajun here. You got it right for the most part cher!
What did he not get right
Acadian here from the Canadian east coast 👋
@@cruzgomes5660 He missed some important points about the Acadians in Canada. There are more communities there than he mentioned.
@@jonathansgarden9128 where at?
As an Acadian, all I have to say is that we're still here (even though there aren't a lot of us).
Amusingly one of the Acadia day tradition at least in New Brunswick is the tintamarre, which is a parade where Acadians do as much noise as possible (literally).
Breaux here 💥
As a direct descendant of the Acadians, thank you for covering this.
@Di Paolo hello
What family are you of? I'm of the Dupres
Hi! I’m descended from Olivier Daigre.
I'm a Melançon descendant
Boudreaux here!
I'm an Acadian from New Brunwick and also a public school French teacher in Nova Scotia, so I am lucky enough to experience my culture in both provinces. Your video was quite good, but much like The Dollop episode on the subject you missed a lot of important information. There is still a thriving Acadian community all over Atlantic Canada, and while there have been many attempts to assimilate us, we are still here. In New Brunswick and Nova Scotia we have our own French school boards. In New Brunswick we represent about 32% of the population, while in Nova Scotia, it is around 5%. The majority of people identifying as Acadians speak French, though many people who consider themselves Acadian have non-French ancestry (Irish, Scottish, Mi'qmaq, even Lebanese). In my hometown and even in New Brunswick as a whole people with last names like McGraw, Richardson, MacLaughlin are likely French speaking. Statistics don't account for the whole story. We're still here, we still speak French, and we still celebrate our culture.
Thank you for the video. I know you can't get everything 100%, especially considering how many you make. I appreciate the effort you put in.
They seem to think there are no Acadians left in the maritimes or something... how does one research the Acadians and miss that there are still 300 000 french-speaking Acadians in Acadie? J'en peut plus
www.museeacadien.com/implantation-acadienne
acadiensduquebec.org/monuments.php
J'ai des ancêtres Acadiens qui ont été déportés dans les colonies américaines en 1755 et qui se sont établis au Québec (Lanaudière) en 1766 et 1767.
@@JAlex-dg5mk Trop cool, la plupart des Québécois ont au moins un peu d'ascendance Acadienne mais les régions de Trois-Rivières, Lanaudière, Nicolet, Louiseville, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Gaspésie et les îles-de-la-madeleine ont des concentrations les plus fortes.
je suis un acadien du nord du maine.
Watch the movie: “ACADIA OF MY YOUTH” you’ll love it.
Metis-acadian from nouveau Brunswick we are very much still here! Sadly alot of our language has been assimilated from us due to the traumas of our elders regarding many things but the connection and history will always have been !!
Thank you for this excellent post. I live in the Fort Worth, Texas area. In the 1980s I worked for a company that employed a large number of Cajuns from south Louisiana. They continued to speak their French dialect between themselves and much of the time called themselves French. They made it very clear they were not Creoles. These Cajuns made excellent employees.
Very kind words ☺️
Thank you for sharing this experience.
acadian where i live would throw logs in the water and would roll them down to the wood mill by jumping and riding the logs like a raft durring the heaviest currents of the year. they called this "la drave" it is a part of the culture were i live and the men who did this were the last people to practice la drave in america
@@denistardif6650 #RockStars!
@@denistardif6650 The drive, an Anglicisme no doubt. My grandfather died after a week when he was hit by a log. He died on March 19, 1933. I have always wondered if he wasn't killed in a "drave" rather than in a farm accident given the time of year. My father had an uncle, a young man, who was blown out to sea on the Bay of Chaleur. My father detested the water and when my mother wanted to live by the water here in Ontario flatly refused to have anything to do with her plan. I wonder if those 2 accidents influenced my father's thinking.
N'oublions pas les Acadiens ! 🇨🇦🇨🇵
My grandfather knew French fluently. He wasn't allowed to speak it at school and gotten beaten a few times for doing so. My mom learned French in school on her own but didn't pass it down. No with my generation and the internet, i am purposely learning Cajun french to pass it down and to others!
I'm Cajun. My family is from Houma, Raceland, and Thibodeaux. Manifest from the ship shows my family landed in Acadia in 1640. We were french fur trappers, canoe people that spread to the west , then down the Mississippi river to southern Louisiana by 1730. One of my ancestors was a Colonel in the Point Coupe militia in the American Revolutionary War, and some of my ancestors were with Jean Lafitte at Barataria. My family is part Chippewa and Houma indian. My grandmother spoke only Cajun french until she was 35 years old.
From Des allemands myself
Did you know today’s “Cajuns” today are not Acadians but rather a mixture of ancestors from Acadie, France and Québec? When the Acadians arrived in Louisiana, they mixed with the French Creoles (white Louisianians of ancestry from France and Québec) who were already here in Louisiana. That’s how many of the surnames of “Cajun” identified folks today are of French Creole origin such as surnames like Ardoin, Fontenot, Rabalais, Dupré, Fuselier, Cantrelle, Mayeux, Pellegrin, Vidrine, Chauvin, Rodrigue, Soileau and too many others to list. Some of my family is from Houma too, the Autin family and Autin is of French Creole origin that originally came from Québec. Many people in Louisiana do not know this.
As a direct descendant of the Acadians having people cover my ancestors makes me happy. My ancestors were some of first Acadians to settle in South Louisiana after being ousted by the British.
Je suis une descendante acadienne je suis Québécois ma mère et sa famille sont de la bay des chaleurs en Gaspésie j’ai bien aimé votre rapportage sur les acadiens
0:56 I love you.
There's so much information that are missing from the english wikipedia pages that talk about the English Conquest and their post-war threatment of the catholics in the Lower Canada. Acadiens, Irish, Québecois, Métis and even Scottish suffered greatly during their reign of assimilation and destruction. Masaman, if you ever want to talk in great details of the 'why' there are so little old French habitations left inbetween Montréal and Québec City, the main reason was the burning, destruction, raping of all the inhabitants of the regions, in their conquest, they sought to absolutely destroy the seigniorial system of New France. The hanging of Louis Riel, the Patriots hangings.. .All those things were made before the Durham report, which called all of them “a people with no literature and no history --” (without stating, that they destroyed most of the culture and literature, with the exile of all the nouveau-nobles, bourgeois and nobles back to France...)
A lot of Acadiens were shut in chapels and burnt alive, as catholic church had little values to protestants, reformists, etc. The men were sent away by ships to work as indebted workers, or simply put slaves. You should read up the poem 'Évangéline' which although a little fictionalize, does account for what the Acadians had to live through.
I'll give you a bunch of credited sources, I need for people to understand the plight of the people of 'lower' Canada, the British Empire was brutal and did a lot of horrible things that isn't represented whatsoever in the Anglo-sphere of the internet.
Love you brother, take care.
That's based as fuck. Vae victis
French Canadians and Acadians suffered a great deal because of the British conquest, but we are still here, and proud of our heritage!
Vaincu nous fûmes, mais certainement pas mort!
Linkyoo - you have no idea what you are talking about concerning the Acadians. There were no "Acadiens were shut in chapels and burnt alive". The Acadian men were not shipped off into indentured servitude (what you are calling indebted workers) or into slavery. Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie is a wonderful epic poem. It only imparts a very rudimentary idea of Acadia and the Acadians. It was very successful at mythologizing Acadians.
You are also overstating what the British did "in between Montréal and Québec City". Furthermore, the British did not "absolutely destroy the seigniorial system ". It actually flourished under the British. The British had no issue with the seigneurial system. In Acadia for example the British government bought some of the seigneuries and thus participated directly in the system. You really do not know the history. The Durham Report was issued in 1839. Riel was not hanged until 1885. This act takes place after Canada became a nation, thus it has nothing to do with the British.
You should do a little broader reading about French imperialism. It was pretty brutal.
Je suis français Bourguignon et même si je n'ai jamais été au Canada, je me suis intéressé à l'histoire de l'Acadie. C'est fou ce que vous avez vécu et je respecte votre courage. Ce que les anglais ont fait en acadie, ça me rappelle la guerre des boers où les anglais ont inventé les camps de concentration pour matter les boers. Beaucoup en sont morts.
Linkyoo is right. Do not try to even downplay what happened. She or he is on point with information. I'm Cajun french from Acadia Parish Louisiana. The oppression is deep. It was the first ethnic cleansing years before Jamestown. Just because there's no movie doesn't make it any less real. In the 1930s a law was passed so French children were forced to learn and speak English in school. My grandmother was severely paddled for accidentally speaking French. It should be taught in all schools in Louisiana and any Acadie communities in America as Spanish is taught in schools in southwestern America. All the Acadians were guilty of was not bowing down to the crown and being a proud people. The language might be slowly dying here, but the culture is rich. It's impressive after 100s of years of oppression Southern Louisiana has not forgotten her motherland and is like a different world in America
!!!! I can’t believe somebody finally made this video! The Acadians are such a fascinating group to talk about and I’m glad you did
When I was learning French in high school (Buffalo, NY area), our class once crossed into Canada to attend a French Mass in Port Colborne, Ontario.
In 1961 a French-speaking National Guard outfit from from Lafayette, Louisiana, stayed at our barracks at Fort Sill, Oklahoma for their summer camp. Years later there was a documentary about Lafayette on television where old people were saying the youngsters weren’t speaking French anymore.
That’s because they haven’t taught it to us , when I grand parents went to school they were punished and beat if they spoke Louisiana French .So they didn’t teach it to their children and I our parents couldn’t teach us.
I’m from Lafayette and my father’s generation spoke French but we don’t. They passed a law in 1921 that French couldn’t be spoken in school so it was only spoken at home. It soon began dying out.
@@laurenmeadors3501 This was the case in the Maritime provinces ( formerly Acadie, and the ancestral home of the Acadian/ Cajun people). But it has changed. We now have 22 Acadian French schools in Nova Scotia and I taught at our local school. My son graduated from there and is bilingual. I did not have this opportunity as a student but the Acadian people fought for the right to have their own schools and school board here and won in the 1990s. Because I have French Acadian ancestry, my son had the right to attend this school and reclaim his cultural heritage. I hooe the Cajun people will work at establishing French immersive schools for the survival of their own cultural heritage!
@@dorisbetts3012 You're in Nova Scotia. How many immersion programmes are there around you? When my daughter and son were enrolled in the French school here in Kingston, Ontario in the early 1980s, the discrimination against Anglophones trying to enroll their kids in that school was horrible. It got worse a bit later when an absolute Francophobe moved in from Toronto to be the superintendent of French as a 2nd language.. He wouldn't even let the French as a 2nd language consultant tell people that they could enroll their kids in the French first language school if they been in Early French Immersion elsewhere. I was told that just a couple of years before when I found out that there was no Early French Immersion programme here. Dirty secret! Anglophone, non Roman Catholic families could enroll their kids in the French first language school and the public board would pay their fees and pick up the tab for bus transportation. We, myself and a few supporters, fought for 3 years to have the Early French Immersion programme started in the public board. We finally won, not because we were really well organize, but because the court case that said that Francophones and non -Francophones with kids enrolled in the elementary and high school French first language programmes would be putting 3 board members on the school boards. Can't have that, right? French power! and Early French Immersion power! So, now, the French first language schools have been opened to Anglophones with no language test and we have Early Total French Immersion and Early Partial Immersion in place.
My Acadian line, once booted out of Nova Scotia, moved south west and settled in a place near Hillsboro, Wisconsin. The settlement was later called the Cheyenne Valley Settlement, also one of the first, if not the first, mixed settlements in the U.S, and we built the round barns scattered throughout Wisconsin. We mixed with people from Togo, Mali, Nigeria, and East Coastal Indians like the Waccamaw descendants who also settled around Hillsboro. Some stayed in and around Cheyenne Valley, but my kin moved south to the area now know as Lake Charles, LA.
I'm the last generation, who will remember this. #1975 #lostculture
I still remember my grandmother(Smith/Dupree) talking on the phone in french, so we didn't understand what they were saying. But we heard our names, so we knew they were talking about us lol
My mom’s family was nearly entirely Cajun. Both sides of her family spoke French 2 generations ago. They told my grandparents that “French was a dirty language” and refused to speak it around them. This is due to the aftermath of Louisiana’s policy that education was compulsory and must be in English. So sadly know I just know a little French. We are very protective of our culture in other aspects though, for example our food, music, and surprisingly our flag are everywhere and I don’t think that is going anywhere. It has only been in the last. Pulled decades Cajun culture has seen a reserve me in pride and I hope we can assert ourselves more in the future.
What are your Cajun family surnames?
And then there’s St Pierre and Miquelon, the last part of New France under French control. They have a cool flag
You should let your citizens visit it
Yeah kinda similar to our flag 🇵🇭
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Are you going to do the genetics of the levant?
Thank you for keeping Acadian history alive.
An idea for next time; chronicle the Acadian migration up the St. Lawrence and into northern New York State.
Yeah! I'm in Kingston, Ontario and, apparently, there were a lot of French-Canadians in northern Frontenac County and also along the St Lawrence river. However they were never expelled and just assimilated so their story is not that tragic, I guess. There was certainly discrimination. One study tried to show that French Canadian kids in New York state were poorly looked after, but it ended up proving they were better cared for than their anglo counterparts.
as a canadian, i'm glad you finally covered this
Where are you from in Canada?
Oh yeah my boy Mase is back!
My great grandma spoke no English. She passed when I was 20. Her daughter, my grandma, spoke both languages and would intermingle English and French. She passed a year after my great grandma. My mother could speak Cajun but rarely did. She passed 10 years ago. I only know a few words but rarely use them. My children don't know much about our culture as they have no interest and we now live in panhandle of Florida. And lots of Cajuns live in the Panhandle.
Also my grandmas lived in Gueydan. From what I understand the family helped found the town.
That's your fault. My grandpa was the last speaker but I'm still learning it on my own to pass down
I grew up speaking many languages. The ones most important to me to pass down are Chahta (which has some French words), English, Spanish, and Italian. This is what I did with children to teach them these languages (and it was tiring) is when I said something in one language, I said the same thing in the other three that I wanted to pass down so they would hear the same thing in four languages. It worked.
Lol just learn french on duolingo and youre set 😂 you can add learning french from quebec which more similar to how french north amerikab people spoke
Its not like it was berber or a native amerindian language where its very hard to learn it on internet due to lack of good quality complete online ressources 😂
For english speaker learning french is easy. Much more easy then learning russian or japaneese korean
It’s the American way, you get stripped of your culture and identity and get rebranded “American”. Your kids grow up and go to school in a culture that promotes being “American” and being anything else will get you bullied.
@ yeah. Still they come. It doesn't work.
Nova Scotian here. Acadian French and culture still alive in the Annapolis Valley in the south and in Cape Breton in various areas. Also found throughout coast of New Brunswick.
Thank you, and in Prince Edward Island and parts of Newfoundland as well
Pomquet is still keeping Acadian culture alive.
And in Petit de Grat on Isle Madame Cape Breton and in Cheticamp, in Pubnico on the southern tip on NS and along the French shore of the Bay of Fundy in Metegan and Point de l'Eglise past the Annapolis Valley. And we can't forget Pomquet. There are French Acadian communities in PEI and also in Newfoundland, I believe.
@@dorisbetts3012 Would Ile de la Madeleine be Acadian or Québecois or both?
Although I was born in Montréal, I am a direct descendant of the Acadians settled in New Brunswick.. Kudos to your rigorous excellent historical research work.. In my humble opinion, I would tell you that the Acadians living in the Northern part of the province of New-Brunswick due to their proximity to Québec, to their dynamism and creativity are likely to survive.. However for the other more dispersed communities in Nova Scotia and Prince-Edward Island, the struggle to keep their culture is perhaps more fragile or uncertain.. I could be very wrong about that last point. Because as you know, history has surely proved the incredible resilience against overwhelming odds of the Acadian culture..
Same as here.
Dartmouth is building a french school due to the demand from the acadien population
I appreciate learning anything that has to do with Acadian culture and appreciate the research . it is very interesting.I was born in the states (Maine) my paternal grandparents are from Quebec & my maternal grandparents are New Brunswick , ST Nobert & Caraquet ( my mother is a Dugas) there is a book called Jeanne Dugas 1731-1817 its very good reading.
Hey my mom is also born in Montreal but has family in new Brunswick I wonder if we are related LOL
@@alancloutier8820 we have a lot of Dugas people here in Louisiana
I am nearly 60, from Massachusetts, and only recently learning some of the details of my Acadian roots in what is now called Nova Scotia. My great grandfather was of English descent, and my great grandmother was Acadian. She and her sisters spoke French at home. The names Babin, Lavache, LeBlanc, Hebert, Daigle, Dugas, Gaudet and many others dating back to the early settlement of Port Royal are coming up on my family tree. I am astonished to know this history.
I've seen that name "Dugas" before.
That's great that you know your history. Massachusetts is also the best state.
How wonderful for you! My father was Acadian from Isle Madame in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia and I love my Acadian family and history. I have some of those same names in my family tree. You could learn so much coming to Nova Scotia, the land of your ancestors!
Check our the history of Jeanne Dugas online and you will be proud of your ancestry! She was an amazing Acadian woman!
@@dorisbetts3012 I will! Many of my known French ancestors lived in Arichat on Isle Madame.
I wish people knew more about the suffering that my ancestors went through ...
Our people weren't victims they carved out a amazing way of life in a place others could not. Britain's loss.
My Mother's family is French Cajun! My Father's family is Hungarian! How luckey am I to have had my Grandfather meet a Cajun Lady and fall in ❤️! Raised in South Louisiana, And I am Proud of It. Last name does not stop the Heritage! Everywhere I go they know where I'm from, just by the sound of my voice! Rock On+ Life Rocks!!
I lived in Quebec for three years 1980’s. My grandsons are descendants of Louisiana [son in law) I love this video and your awesome content! Thank you for your hard work!
8:45 is very inaccurate, I'm Acadian from New Brunswick. We are very loud and proud, go to any French speaking region and you will see Acadian flags literally everywhere on everything.
Does anyone identify as Quebecois?
@@huskyfaninmass1042 people from Quebec only
Same! Acadian from NB and Acadian Culture is alive and well.
Haven't watched your videos for a while but the quality of the video and work you've put in it is always awesome.
Thank You,
My paternal grandmother's maternal grandfather's paternal grandmother was Anastasia Bourgeois who was a Cajun born in Assumption Parish, Louisiana.
She was 3/4 Acadian.
A very interesting video. There is a group of French immigrants who were driven out of France and not welcomed in Quebec, the Huguenots. So, in Massachusetts, we have French Protestant Huguenots and Quebec Catholics. Keep up the good work.
In south Africa : 1/4 of dutch Settlers were huguenots .. as they were deported themselves during Révocation of Edith de Nantes ...
Very well done, Mon Ami! He suis an sud Louisiane Cajun
Recent Quebec is open to all immigrants and religion could be live for French Huguenots who are immigrants especially when they still speak and keep French culture
Louisiana is loaded with ancestry from direct from France and Québec. Many people don’t know this, but the “Cajuns” in Louisiana are a three-way mix of Acadian-French-Québécois because when the Acadians arrived to Louisiana they intermarried with the French Creoles (these are white Louisianians of ancestry from France and Québec). There are other white Louisianians today that still identify as French Creoles. Also, there are mixed race type Creoles of a mixture of European and West African descent called Creoles of Color and their European side is mostly a mixture of ancestry from France and Québec (via the French Creoles) but many also have Acadian descent too. Cajuns used to be called Acadian Creoles. Creole means to be a local born person to Louisiana (of any race or ancestry) of old world ancestry (any ancestry not of Native American origin, which is new world) and usually descended from the colonial Louisiana population (of any race or ancestry). Creoles are usually either white, mixed race or black in Louisiana.
@@vernicejillmagsino9603 Quebec is not too friendly to Arab women wearing hijabs at work in the public service, right? Legault is really pushing the envelope. I think eventually Montreal will just say , "Bye-Bye!" to Quebec.
In New Brunswick, Acadian culture is alive and well. The amount of pride people take in being Acadian, in speaking the French language and in celebrating "La journée d'Acadie" really shows that this culture will not go out quietly. Our province has bilingual laws, mandating equal use of the two languages. It's also split, with the northeast being mostly french and the southwest being mostly English.
Couldn't agree more with you! Proud Acadian myself, and the amount of Acadian flags that fly on peoples front lawns and the excitement for August 15th celebrations shows that Acadian culture is alive and well in NB, NS and PEI
On dit "La fete des Acadiens" ❤️
Thank You so much for this, I trace my Acadian Heritage back to 1600"s Poitou, France on my father's side and Riviere Ouelle, Quebec on my mother's side. Proud to be Acadian. One thing missing is the large presence of French speaking Acadians in Aroostook County Maine, here since their expulsion from Nova Scotia in the mid 1700"s. Live on Acadie!
Thru Ancestry, I found out about my Acadian roots. My grandmother was from New Brunswick. Her side goes back several hundred years.
Finally, a new video! WHERE WERE YOU MAN? I MISSED YOU!
Vive le Quebec, Vive le Acadiens, Vive le France! 🇫🇷 ⚜️🇲🇶
Thank you so much for this extensive and well done video.
Well done, thank you for new knowledge
Good stuff! Acadian here and I can trace my ancestors back to France. Must've been tough traveling threw the winter in the woods on foot! We owe so much to our first nations. Vive l'acadie!
Vive l'acadie!
I've traced my heritage back to the 1755 expulsion. My particular line of Bellefontaine-Godin we're among those few Acadians who managed to survive in Nova Scotia. Being on the run and hunted by the royals, my ancestors for many years after lived in fear of being captured. Living on the run, never a permanent home. Always in fear of capture. A resilient line still! Long live L'acadie!
@@Katbow23 the Bellefontaine family remains in NS.
Newfie with Acadian ancestors here. We have french, acadian and mikmaq influences.
French Shore Newfoundland born n bread.
Thanks for making this video!
Great content as usual.
My great grandparents were some of these Blacks or Creoles in South Louisiana who grew up speaking only French. The number of blacks or Creole of color who spoke French or Creole in Louisiana was quoted as 400,000 in 1989. The population at that time was 4.2 million so the number of Blacks speaking French at that time(1989) would be about 10.2%( no doubt much much less now)
I was the only grandchild that was old enough to know them well. I would hear them speaking among themselves but they did not think that it was a thing to teach us. It never occurred to them. Even my own grandmother only knew few words having moved to Texas as a girl.
There was a time when it was considered shameful to speak French. The French speakers were discriminated against in terms of employment, religion, etc. That may be why they never taught you.
Exact same. Both of my greatgrandparents moved to Texas from Louisiana in the 50s and spoke multiple languages between the two of them but didn't teach it to us. My grandmother knew some words and phrases. They said that their elders didn't want them to advance ahead of them so naturally that was apart of the reasoning why we weren't taught.
Many of the whites in Louisiana (including Cajuns) are descended from French Creoles (white Louisianians of ancestry from France and Québec). Actually most of the surnames of Creoles of Color also came from French Creoles (Creoles of Color also descend from French Creoles). I myself descend from French Creoles (but also Spanish Creoles and Acadian Creoles also known as Cajun).
@@dorisbetts3012 Right! They didn't want their children to experience the same discrimination that maybe, their parents had suffered. My mother's parents both spoke German,but they also spoke English with a standard North American accent. They would speak German to each other when they didn't want their children to understand what they were talking about. German was my Grandmother's 3rd language since she grew up speaking Norwegian in Iowa and using English at school. She was a servant for a German-speaking family in Iowa and learned the language from that family. My grandfather was 2nd or 3rd generation in Berlin, Ontario and the family still spoke German at home and in church, but went to school and shopped in English.
Great video! I’ve always been fascinated with the connection between Cajun/ Creole culture in Louisiana with early Canada
Cajun culture in Louisiana is Creole culture because Cajuns are a type of white Louisiana Creole and the food and culture Cajuns have is the general south Louisiana food and culture that everyone who has ancestors in the Louisiana colony partake in no matter race or ancestry so the food and culture is Creole. Creole encompasses the whites, blacks and mixed race peoples of Louisiana that usually are descended from the colonial Louisiana population. Creole also means to be local and native-born to Louisiana. Cajun (Acadian) is an ancestry. But even so, today’s Cajuns are a mixture of ancestry from Acadie, France and Québec from the mixing of Acadian settlers and French Creoles (white Louisianians with ancestry from France and Québec), so Cajuns today are not Acadians the same as the Acadian settlers that settled Louisiana.
Glad this video came out. I am descended from Arcadians/ Cajuns in Louisiana.
"Although the number that actually identify as Acadian is quite low (...) so it would appear that the bulk of the French descendants in this region are of Québécois or French origin, or at least are unaware of their Acadian heritage". My grandmother was Acadian from New Brunswick, I'm just going to say you are very, abominably, almost offensively wrong. The reason for the low number of people in the maritimes stating their heritage as "Acadian" is because it is a fairly recent addition to the census form, and most do not know it's there and write "French" or identify as Canadian first and foremost. However a trip to the Acadian regions of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and PEI will reveal that there is an Acadian flag on almost every house (literally, I am not exaggerating) every Francophone in that region identifies as Acadian, Acadian names such as LeBlanc, Cormier, Landry, Arsenault, Comeau, Gallant, Richard, and many others are some of the most common names in the provinces, the French school board in Nova Scotia is called the Conseil Acadien Provincial, the dialect of Acadian French is still spoken there by 300 000 people, and I mean just say that to anyone who lives there and see what happens. I am frankly surprised and disappointed that you made a video about Acadians without talking about the modern Acadians and I'm trying to wrap my head around how that's even possible.
Trying to portray the french culture and language outside the province of Quebec as a bygone matter of history is a subtle form of britishamerican colonialism.
This feeling and practise of superiority is the origin of racial tensions in the US.
Well Said!
I guess it’s just better not to talk about it at all as to not offend you guys?
Rudolf Kraffzick you are so so right 🙏🏻
It's an 11 minute blurb about a complicated subject. It's not a university class. Make your own video and try to give people some credit for making any attempt to educate people. There is no need to so dramatically disagree with someone, you can actually have an active productive conversation without all of the histrionics.
Love the segment! ❤️
I don’t know if you take suggestions but i’d love to see a video on the Yakuts or Kalmyks, great video none the less!
Allo j'suis Acadienne. My family is from New Brunswick, I wouldn't say the language is dying out so much as it's changed. Most of the youth speak Chiac, which is a mixture of French and English. I wish you'd talk more about the Acadians who avoided the deportation and remained in Acadia, but nevertheless nice video!
I believe the ones who remained fled to NB before Le Grand Dérangement. You and I are the descendants of those Acadians. I mistakenly thought I'd find family names on mailboxes in Grand Pré. Big shock to learn, the lands were given to loyalists .
@@chickadeeacres3864 That is what expulsions do - remove people from a place which then leaves it open for others to settle.
There were Acadians who arrived in New Brunswick before, during, and after the deportations. The Grand Derangement is not just the period of the deportations. It extends beyond, being about the diaspora of Acadians; for example those who immigrate to Louisiana in the 1760s and 1780s.
I hope he does too. That’s fascinating!
@@chickadeeacres3864 Yes, the Acadians that were left or who returned to New Brunswick were told to go to northern New Brunswick, not return to the Anapolis Valley where they had lived previously. My family, the Jeffers were among "the planters'who were recruited by the British governor to take over the Acadian lands right after the Acadians were loaded on ships and deported or forced to flee to other more welcoming parts of "New France." The planters arrived a couple of decades before the Loyalists and were looked down upon by the Loyalists apparently. They had to be non-Roman Catholic and English-speaking. my original ancestor was born in Rhode Island, but the name is Irish and Protestant. There were about 5,000 Planters brought in to take over the Acadian farms which had been burned and pillaged by the English and New Englanders who wanted rid of them once and for all.
There is so much in this. I need to watch this again.
Thanks for this video! I grew up in middle of Acadiana! Good video 👍
This is such an outstanding video. We have to explain all the different “pockets” of different heritage just found within a couple hundred square miles of South Louisiana, from Acadiana to New Orleans. I’m a French-Cajun “mutt” with one side of my family being directly from France and having immigrated to South Louisiana just after the Civil War, and the other side being “Cajuns” with ancestry traced to “La Grande Dérangement” from Acadie, Canada in the 18th century! Mason you’ve done a bang up job succinctly explaining this crazy cultural mix we have in Louisiana, while giving me some great new info about French heritage in New England. I knew about Massachusetts - but Maine and New Hampshire I did not! More French ancestry in those two states than Louisiana! Wow! Thanks man! Well done! I just subscribed!
Bourgeois in my ancestry tree. Hi from Québec.
The New England states historically had strong connections to Atlantic Canada, both in commerce and family ties. I am half Acadian from Nova Scotia and many of my family went to the New England states for work during the 1920s and 1930s. But prior to the establishment of Canada in 1867, the trade links were strong between our two countries, north snd south. After the Intercolonial railway was built in Canada, trade shifted to the east to west corridor and the links with Atlantic Canada eventually were weakened.
This link is very good and you may be interested in listening. ua-cam.com/video/KbjrUAl3yBs/v-deo.html
Thank you Masaman ! C'est passionnant ! I'm personally really interested to know more about Louisiana History 😁
Here is a link for you...ua-cam.com/video/KbjrUAl3yBs/v-deo.html
omg dude welcome back dude. I hope you were doing fine ;) nice to see you have put up a new video :D !!!!
il y a du fromage dans mes oreilles de cette richesse abondante de connaissances sur les mamelons. Merci du haut d'une oreille d'éléphant. Pieds de fer! 🇫🇷
I'm a Creole with a Cajun Great Grandfather that was a lawyer!
I'am a Cajun with a Cane River Creole grandmother
I'm an actual creole who's ancestors came directly from France. The original meaning of Creole
Nice Creole boy here hahaha
I have Louisiana creole, Cajun, and islenos roots on my mother’s paternal side
More great lakes stuff please : ) . Northern great lakes is very interesting!
Amazing content as always...I've watched a good few of your videos...love them..Any Irish videos?
Fascinating! Thanks 👍
Well, Amos Moses was a cajun, he lived by himself in the swamp, he hunted alligators for livin'...
He just knock em in the head with a stump
I can just hear Jerry Reed singing that.
Long live the Cajuns,
My 6th great-grandfather Jean Mouton is recognized as the founder of Lafayette, Louisiana. Many of the Acadians who were forced out by the British ended up in Louisiana. We are a God-fearing people who strive to get along with everyone. Laissez les bons temps rouler!
I am about 1/4th Acadian, owing to my 100% Acadian grandmother who once spoke only French as a child and whose family was never deported. It's an interesting little culture.
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Great video!!
Masaman, your subreddit got hijacked by one of the moderators, (samueldp) who de-modded and/or banned every moderator below him. We still have a good Discord going if you're interested!
Two ideas for a interesting video:
The peoples of the north Caucasus, like the Circassians and Vainahk peoples
Ahmadiyya, a branch of islam with you could call the “mormon-like islam”
Coincidentally, that’s how I found this video. It was through the Who are Circassians video I spotted while looking for Circassian dancing after seeing an Instagram reel. Talk about a rabbit hole!😂
I must command you.exellent rendition of history.
Lessssgoooooooooooooo He's BACK!!!!!!!!!!
Cajun culture is how this D&D player learned the difference between "blow of mercy" and "blow of fat."
Ha! Yes, indeed. Every time I hear an American say "fat" instead of "grace/mercy," I wince a little bit on the inside. Next stop: chaise-lounge!
Took me a while but I understood the pun. Noice :D
Oh, yeah: "coup de gras" instead of "coup de grâce". It's like "fleur-de-lit" instead of "fleur-de-lys"...
My last name is Saulnier which is of course Acadian. My father's mother was a Belliveau. My mother's father was a Gallant. These too are Acadian names.
Awesome video... learnt a few things.
KPFT in Houston still has a Cajun show every Saturday morning. When I was a kid the show was almost entirely in French. Now the show is mostly in English and about half the songs are in French.
There also used to be programming in Czech and Polish on AM. Still a lot of languages there still, but Mandarin and Urdu now mostly.
Many local radio stations in small towns in Louisiana still have all French/Cajun shows mostly on weekends early in the morning or daily on A.m. stations or internet radio.
You can Google them and listen online.
we roleplay Acadia in a minecraft server, so it’s very well alive
*Hon hons in Acadienne*
can i have the IP pleaaaaaaaaase
@@fritoss3437 EarthMC.net
Bruh can they restart the server already?
Cringe
I learned more about the Cajuns/Acadians in my fall semester history course.
This is an 11 minute video, what did you expect? This is not the complete history of cajuns, rather what happened to the people.
Very good video. Can you do a video on the people of the Klondike?
Excellent video!!!!!!!!!!!
you should do a video on the US exiles who fled the 13 colonies after the revolution and moved to upper Canada [Ontario]. becoming the founding population of the province.
Yes, the Loyalists arrived in the British colonies. It is a major factor in the division of Québec and the creation of Ontario. It also happened in Nova Scotia, as the British in Halifax did not get along with the Loyalists who settled the Saint John River valley and thus created New Brunswick. Interestingly, the Acadians are a very small but culturally rich minority in Nova Scotia now, but in New Brunswick, they make up a large minority. Moncton is the defacto capital of Acadia in NB with the urbanisation of the province. The city has an Acadian University, arts, and a vibrant economy.
They may have fled on their own, but many were forced out, their property confiscated. The British shipped them (we Americans call them Tories) to parts of Canada, New Brunswick in my family's case, as well as England and the Caribbean.
A bit of an odd story, over a hundred years before that, my ancestors, being Huguenots, were forced out of France and settled on the Delaware river, only to end up in Acadia, albeit British, after the Revolution. They moved to Boston around 1900, and somehow here I am in Texas.
Western settlements where not known as Quebec, we where Canadians. Quebec was just a single settlement that the now province of Quebec was named after during British rule.
*were *were
Exceptional - I’ll put a big ditto on the many positive comments. § Great topic
Just spent the weekend in Cape Breton. Glorious land
I'm a Cape Bretoner from Mira. Gland you enjoyed your weekend
There’s an awesome history of these French towns on the Mexican Atlantic Coast on the state of Veracruz called San Rafael and Jicaltepec (along with a few other surrounding towns) that were settled in the early 1800’s by French families and kept their culture alive to this day! The towns look like French colonial towns like parts of Quebec, St Genevieve/Kaskaskia (French Illinois) and Louisiana French Parishes! It’s like a continuation and they even had many Cajuns move in to these towns and become rich with the vanilla export which was divided between them (the French towns), Gutierrez Zamora (Italian colony just north) and the Spanish migrants in Papantla! It’s a cool history of this part of Mexico that little is known but the French culture is being showcased as a tourist attraction! Have been there and loved it! Really transports you out of Mexico and into France! Cheers
You have the most fascinating post I have read here. I did not know about this aspect of Mexico. All I know it that at one point Mexico had a little bit of an argument with one of the Napoléons. I will have to look into San Rafael and Jicaltepec. Please send me more info if you have more.
Theres roughly 100,000 Acadians in the Moncton Region (roughly 30,000+ in moncton, roughly 25,000 in Dieppe, few 1000 in Riverview and almost every village from moncton to miramichi is Acadian, multiple small 2000-5000 villages). This doesn't even include the north east region.
checking in from manitoba canada
Great channel. You could make something on mentalité. What are the mentalities of the peoples or group of peoples.
What is the leading culture/leading spirituality of a region.
Is there a map on sects and cults?
Economical differences. City ecology/development. Infrastructure.Central and regional planning.
A map of bias/prejudice inside of a country and between different regions or countries.
GIS and map development. CAD and schooling.
Theory of spatial geography.
Methods
Historical world views.And maps.
It’s interesting how the Quebecois settled in Illinois. I am originally from about an hour south of Chicago and a lot of the towns around there have French names (Bourbonnais for example). After doing family history research, I found I that I have a ton of Quebecois ancestry. My 8th great grandfather sailed with Champlain. Apparently there was a priest in Montreal and was excommunicated from the church or something and headed southwest to settle that part of Illinois. I guess a lot of his followers went with him?
The Québécois settled heavily in Louisiana before the arrival of the Acadians and mixed with the French in Louisiana who were from France and this mixed French-Québécois group came to be known as French Creoles. They are white Louisianians of French and Québécois ancestry. Today’s Cajuns in Louisiana are also their descendants because the Acadians mixed with the French Creoles when they arrived to Louisiana so many of today’s “Cajuns” in Louisiana have surnames of Québécois origin (and also surnames direct from France to Louisiana). Here are a few examples of common Louisiana surnames of Québécois origin:
Carriere
Lavergne
Devillier
Autin
Barré
Normand
Dupré
Vasseur
Bienvenue
Langlois
DesHotels (Desautels)
Rozat
Couvillon
Gaspard
St. Romain
Beaudreaux (not to be confused with the Acadian Boudreaux)
Major
Verret
Chauvin
Rodrigue
Ledoux
St. Pierre
Lemieux
Dufrene (Dufresne)
Badeaux
Beaulieu
Fournier
Primeaux
Dupont
DeRouen
Bouchard
Robillard
Morvant
LeFebre
Fournier
Bellanger
Dubuisson
Marcotte
Francois
Joffrion
Some of the Louisiana surnames are of Québécois origin that were in 18th century Illinois first before arriving to 18th century Louisiana such as:
Degruy
Courville
Ardoin
Hulin
Beauvais
Brouillette
Half Ethnic Acadian here; My family survived by moving into various rural areas deep in the woods around the maritimes. The ancestors i have that were deported mostly went to Haiti before the revolutions there surprisingly. My relatives were documented living in Acadia in 1604 there was also a tiny bit of Portuguese influence between 1600-1700 when I tried looking into some of my Petitpas lines in my family tree.
Mine hid in Gaspe and returned post deportation.
I was doing a little bit of genealogical research on the Rodrigue family, a common name in Louisiana and Quebec and I found out it was a Portuguese name. The question I dont have an answer to is : why would a Portuguese want to immigrate to freezing cold Canada instead of the relative paradise of Brazil? I still dont know!
@@kamikazes03 Some moors were deported from Spain and Portugal also to the Americas, and some to Africa. That may be why the surname Rodrigue ( Rodriguez) is from there. We have that surname in Haiti, too, but most of the surnames are french, a few spanish, etc..
@@questfortruth783 Rodrigues were Moors? Unlikely. The Moors would have left the Iberic peninsula during the Reconquista which ended in 1512. Muslims and Jews (Read the first articles of the Black Code) were barred from immigrating in French colonies and even Protestants were not welcomed.
@@kamikazes03Yes, you’re right. Rodrigue is a Québec surname of Portuguese origin. It comes from a sailor named João Rodrigues who was born in Lisbon, Portugal in 1641. He arrived in Québec in 1668. He was employed by the French and sent to New France where he would wound up settling in Québec. He married a woman from Paris, France who also settled in Québec named Anne Le Roy and the two created a family in Québec. Their Québécois great-grandson Jean Baptiste Rodrigue migrated to and settled in south Louisiana sometime between 1760-1763 and married a local south Louisiana woman named Marie Josèphe Dervain from Destrehan, Louisiana (St. Charles Parish) with French and German ancestry. These two people, Jean Baptiste and Marie Josèphe started the original Rodrigue family in Louisiana (which would branch out into many lines thereafter). Jean Baptiste Rodrigue is buried at St. John the Baptist Cemetery in Edgard, Louisiana.
Many of the surnames of Louisiana are of Québec origin (even many among today’s “Cajuns” as “Cajuns” today are descendants of people from Acadie, Québec and France via the mixing of the Acadians that settled Louisiana with the French Creoles of Louisiana who are white Louisianians with ancestry from France and Québec that were already in Louisiana). Louisiana’s “Creoles of Color” which is a mixed European/West African group also have Québécois ancestry via the French Creoles mentioned above). French Creoles still exist today in Louisiana mostly in the Greater New Orleans area (New Orleans and it’s surrounding parishes) and the northern part of Acadiana (Avoyelles, St. Landry and Pointe Coupée parishes) however also in various other parts of south Louisiana such as Ville Platte and Opelousas. Some identify as Cajun (incorrectly, it’s a long story) while others identify as French Creoles. Here are some common surnames in Louisiana that are of Québécois origin (via the French Creoles of Louisiana):
Ardoin
Carriere
Lavergne
Devillier
Autin
Barré
Normand
Dupré
Vasseur
Bienvenue
Langlois
Deshotels (Desautels)
Rozat
Couvillon
Gaspard
St. Romain
Beaudreaux (not to be confused with the Acadian Boudreaux)
Major
Verret
Chauvin
Rodrigue
Ledoux
St. Pierre
Lemieux
Dufrene (Dufresne)
Badeaux
Beaulieu
Fournier
Primeaux
Dupont
DeRouen
Bouchard
Robillard
Morvant
LeFebre
Bellanger
Dubuisson
Marcotte
Francois
Joffrion
Degruy
Courville
Hulin
Beauvais
Brouillette
I AM ACADIEN!!!! My mother is a Pellerin. I am bilingual. My city of FULL of acadiens. Everywhere. Allot of us speak French perfect. I was born and raised in Notre-Dame, New Brunswick. In my city, especially during quinzou you will see almost every second house especially on the eastern part of greater moncton area have an acadien flag. We are very well here, alive and populous. We also have a large black acadien population! And indigenous acadien population as well. Most of the Green Party candidates for my city were black Acadien women.
Très intéressant. Merci.
La prochaine vidéo en français et C est le top
We still exist! ☺ Hi from Northern Maine! *waves while eating ployes*
Ayyye! Acadian here from northern Maine as well! Lived around machias and bar harbor areas too!
@@stylustechnology bar harbor is gorgeous moose head lake region as well Gods country love the peacefulness .
What’s a ploye anything like a plebe? 😀
I grew up in Fort Kent. The St John Valley is full of proud Acadians!
The world would be far more tasteless without Cajun seasonings.
And their music!
It's the only way to make alligator taste edible.
Fascinating
pls do a video specifically on WASPS plsplspls
Last time I was this early Cajuns were all in France
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 Me too!
Awesome thank you
Fascinating indeed
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