My Acadian Heritage
 

My Mom took my kids to a concert with these folks recently. I think they are cool. My ancestry is Acadian.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB7HX2OWXCU

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You must have a hip mom. That group would give my mom heart failure. LOL!

Cool music!

What language is that? French?

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LOL! Well, my Mom is fairly liberal. People on here would consider her very liberal I suppose. She has short hair and is Catholic! The group is a cultural group, they even have them at schools!

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I like the music a lot! Is that French they're speaking?

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Yes. My Mom said at the concert that they did some different dialects that didn't hardly even sound French! I don't speak French, sadly. All they offered in my school was Spanish (I took three years of that.) My grandmother learned French before she learned English. I have quite a few bilingual relatives. My Mom was made to speak French when she was young, but then they moved to an English speaking area and it was fairly lost. At out family reunion, my Grandmother insists that an Acadian flag is flown and there is a sign that says Bienvenue (welcome). My Grandmother is 95 years old and she had a sever heart attack a couple of months ago. We thought we were going to lose her but she is still here!!

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I've always wanted to learn French. One of my sons is going to take it next year through our homeschool curriculum, so I'm going to learn it with him.

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My daughter is taking college French. I'm thrilled but jealous!! :)

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Evangeline is a beautiful song about the Acadian expulsion from that area. When they moved the Acadians out of there many ended up in New Orleans and are now known as the Cajuns. My people hid in Prince Edward Island and changed their name. My grandmother and many of my relatives still live in Prince Edward Island. It is really a very neat heritage.

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My husband keeps telling me that I need to learn Spanish because that would be more useful, but I want to learn FRENCH, not Spanish, so there! :p

I'll probably work on Spanish after French.

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After you speak a little French to him, he will probably see your point!! LOL!!:thumbsup

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That's what I think! LOL.

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Well, I did not understand a word.... but the girls are beautiful...

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Of course they are. LOL!

Did you listen to Evangeline? I love that song.

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From Acadian Heritage on the other end of the Grand Derangement
,I must make a correction here.

The Acadians (Cajuns) did not end up in New Orleans.

They settled southwest Louisiana in the flat praries and the bayous.

New Orleans is known for the Creole culture; the Creoles came straight from France and were the aristocrats while the Cajuns were more rural and folksy.

A southwest Louisiana Cajun would be about as much like a fish out of water in New Orleans as he would be in Duluth, Minnesota.

Also, the cajun culture became a melting pot in southwest Louisiana - not only the Acadians but Spanish and German - along with Acadian French names like Landry there are cajuns named Hoffpauir (German) and Romero (Spanish) as well as Fontenot - who came straight from France. All of them spoke the cajun french dialect.

The Acadians were the first totally North American culture - they had been in modern Nova Scotia and PEI some 200 years before being driven out by the British.

In fact, the Acadians who went to France after being driven from their homeland did not fit in there either.

I agree it is a great heritage.

ILG, you need to come to Louisiana and see it from this end.

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We went to Prince Edward Island several years ago. We loved it!

Do you get to visit your relatives there?

Just think.......you could have become a Cajun.........lol

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I used to sing this all the time as a kid. My mother's side was very Catholic. It was very frowned upon when I left the Catholic church. I had an aunt (passed away) who was a nun. My Mom had to go to convent school when she was young and the priests had a lot of say in what happened in the towns and families.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDhfhSCqbsQ

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This also reminds me of when I was growing up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1BZ1_ssEuk

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And here's some music from this end of the line ... Doug Kershaw. (The roots of his last name are actually English.)

Amazing how things evolve - but after 400 years or so, the culture is alive and well and has a place in the 21st century.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AQvUPN1jAk

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Thanks for the correction, Tim. Since this is my heritage and it's kind of a mish-mash, it is more from memory and what I have been told than research.

Interesting. I know very little about the Cajuns. I just know that the expelled Acadians that went south became Cajuns. And, when pronounced the names sounds similar.

It's funny but while you grow up, you don't really appreciate your heritage too much. I have only become interested in recent years and then, you ask a question here and there and what you are told is, like I said, a mish-mash of belief and tidbits of knowledge from here and there. I found a geneaology website that I sent to my family. It is pretty cool.

http://www.genealogytoday.com/ca/acadian.html

I think I would feel like a fish out of water in Louisiana!

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Yes, quite a number of times. I am going this summer.

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Ah, yes, the fiddle come out again!!! I have cousins who play/have played in this:

http://www.rollobayfiddlefest.ca/

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Here is some real deal Cajun music,this is the real stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGvci6EsFj8

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And I would be eating crawfish instead of LOBSTER!! That would be a tragedy. LOL!!

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Here we go.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stDrybc9Ruw

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Gotta go to work. Love the Cajun videos!!

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that is freaky

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What was that movie some years ago where some guys (I think they were National Guard) got lost in the swamps and attacked by Cajuns?

Not to be confused with "Deliverance"

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What is freaky?

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The sounds the guy makes in this video are freaky - to me at least.

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Well, I understood the drummer when he said "Hi, my friends. How are you?" But when they started singing, it was too fast for me. It's been 35 years since I've had French, but I took 3 years of it and still remember quite a bit.

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Thought I would post this in honor of all the French here.....also refered to as "cheese eating surrender monkeys".....I didnt say that someone else did....anyway here it is, a fine poster of Paris...

http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/c...tor/effort.jpg


Just kidding with the frenchies on here....

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Real Cajuns cringe when cajun accents and culture are portrayed in the movies ... they miss it a country mile whether it's some "B" movie rotten tomato like the one you mentioned or a great actor like Dennis Quaid in "Big Easy."

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This song brings back memories of days gone by while I was growing up in Sudbury Ontario.It was one of the songs we sang in Kindergarden and Grade 1.

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Well, it is kind of wierd. ;)

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My husband picks on the French all the time for not wanting to go to war. I say, "Hey!!" and he says "You're not French, you're Acadian!" :foottap

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I sang it a lot growing up. I remember when my Mom taught me a prayer in French. My grandmother came to visit and my Mom, wanting to show me off, asked me to say it. I did and my Grandmother started laughing at me and said "no, no no!!" and tried to teach me the "right" way. I was less inclined to take French lessons from my mother after that!! LOL!:ursofunny But, I can sing the chorus from Dominique by memory. It sounds French to me, but I can hear my Grandmother laughing in the background!!

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My Mom's sea glass website


http://seaglassin.com/