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Louisiana: A Guide to the State

Book by Louisiana Writers' Project; Hastings House, 1941

Subjects:

Louisiana--Description And Travel--Guide-Books

Collections: History, Entire Library

...All Saints Day are observed throughout south and southwest Louisiana. In the Acadian country west of New Orleans, maskers ride...Orleans, in the parishes which fringe the Gulf, one finds the Acadians, descendants of those families which were driven from Nova...
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Political Tendencies in Louisiana

Book by Perry H. Howard; Louisiana State University Press, 1971

Subjects:

Louisiana--Politics And Government

Collections: History, Entire Library

...the history of Louisiana were the Acadians, who first arrived...and Southwest Louisiana, where settlement...nineteenth century. The Acadians proved to be...French of American Louisiana. On the latter...such that the Acadians lost neither their...
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Louisiana: A History

Book by Bennett H. Wall; Harlan Davidson, 2002

Subjects:

Louisiana--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...well as in the field of politics. The tragic story of the Acadians, immortalized both by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his...live and maintain their ties with their past, is also part of Louisianas story. Even today their descendants, the Cajuns, proudly...
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Mardi Gras, Gumbo, and Zydeco: Readings in Louisiana Culture

Book by Marcia Gaudet, James C. McDonald; University Press of Mississippi, 2003

Subjects:

Folklore--Louisiana, Louisiana--Civilization, Louisiana--Social Life And Customs, Popular Culture--Louisiana

Collections: History, Entire Library

...over 6000 exiled Acadians eventually made...to semi-tropical Louisiana. Louisiana had been...by the time the Acadians began to arrive, Louisiana had been ceded to...United States. The Acadians who came to Louisiana in the 1760s had...
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Sweet Chariot: Slave Family and Household Structure in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana

Book by Ann Patton Malone; University of North Carolina Press, 1992

Subjects:

African Americans--Louisiana--History--19th Century, Louisiana--Population--History--19th Century, Slaves--Louisiana--Family Relationships

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Household Structure in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana 1992 The University of North Carolina...household structure in nineteenth-century Louisiana / Ann Patton Malone. p. cm. -- The...0-8078-4590-6 pbk. : alk. paper 1. Slaves-- Louisiana--Family relationships. 2. Louisiana...

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A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland

Journal article by Joseph Anthony Amato; Journal of Social History, Vol. 39, 2006

Subjects:

A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from their American Homeland (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...elsewhere in the Canadian Maritimes, and Louisiana where a generation later they began to...tragic story of expulsion of the French Acadians from their North American homeland...1756-1763), the expulsion, or what the Acadians and French call le grand derangement...
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A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland

Journal article by Leslie Choquette; The Historian, Vol. 69, 2007

Subjects:

A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...American history" (473). He estimates that some ten thousand Acadians lost their lives as a direct result of the Great Disturbance...exile, and the rebuilding of Acadian communities in Canada and Louisiana. A concluding chapter carries the story forward to the present...
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French, Cajun, Creole, Houma: A Primer on Francophone Louisiana

Journal article by Sara Brooks Sundberg; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 72, 2006

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, French, Cajun, Creole, Houma: A Primer on Francophone Louisiana (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...groups influential in shaping French cultures in Louisiana: Acadians, Creoles, both black and white, and Houma Indians...stereotypes about French-speaking people in Louisiana, especially Acadians (and later Cajuns) and Creoles. A succinct historiography...
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Let the Good Times Unroll: Music and Race Relations in Southwest Louisiana

Journal article by Mark Mattern; Black Music Research Journal, Vol. 17, 1997

Subjects:

Cajuns--Music, Creoles--Music, Louisiana--Music, Race relations--Louisiana

Collections: Entire Library

...of Cajun origin and brought to Louisiana from French Canada by the Acadians.... The Creoles adopted the music...Dispersal and wanderings of the Acadians, 1755-1809. Lafayette: The Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern...
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Endogamy Among Louisiana Cajuns: A Social Class Explanation

Journal article by Carl L. Bankston III, Jacques Henry; Social Forces, Vol. 77, 1999

Subjects:

Social Problems, Social Service

Collections: Entire Library

...Jon Gibson. Universities of Southwestern Louisiana. Domengeaux, James. 1986 . "Native-Born Acadians and the Equality Idea". Louisiana Law Review 46 :1151-95. Dormon, James. 1983 . The People Called Cajuns: An introduction...

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Paradise Stolen: Two Hundred and Fifty Years Ago This September, the Acadians of Nova Scotia, Builders of a Free and Peaceful Society, Were Driven from Their Land at the Point of British Bayonets

Magazine article by William Norman Grigg; The New American, Vol. 21, August 22, 2005

Subjects:

Acadian Coast--History, Acadians--History

Collections: Entire Library

...that number migrated to Spanish-owned Louisiana, where they became the ancestors of todays...Island, and Quebec. The expulsion of the Acadians is known to history as Le Grand Derangement...tribes can attest, the expulsion of the Acadians was not an isolated fit of madness, but...
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A Spicy Cajun Stew : Centered in a Louisiana Sawmill Town after the First World War, Tim Gautreaux's New Novel Ponders the Effects of Violence on the Human Soul

Magazine article by Tom Pilkington; World and I, Vol. 19, January 2004

Subjects:

The Clearing (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...stories, most of Gautreauxs characters are working-class Cajuns (descendants of the French-speaking Acadians, who were removed from Canada to Louisiana by the British in the eighteenth century). Sometimes his characters wish to escape their native...
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Longfellow's Evangeline and the Cult of Acadia

Magazine article by James Allan Evans; Contemporary Review, Vol. 280, February 2002

Subjects:

Acadians--History, Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth--Works, Nova Scotia--History, Poetry--Authorship, Poets--Works

Collections: Entire Library

...University of Louisiana library proclaimed...redcoats had shot Acadians in the course...Virginia sent the Acadians who arrived there...colonists to reach Louisiana. In Europe, the...Web pages from Louisiana on the Acadians to feel the heat...
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All the Duke's Men

Magazine article by Andrew W. Robertson; National Review, Vol. 43, December 16, 1991

Subjects:

Duke, David--Political activity, Louisiana--Political aspects, Politics--Louisiana, Populism--Political aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...nominee, the more attractive he will be as a protest vehicle. Louisiana was relatively immune from the race-baiting politics that...legacy of the Cajuns, descendants of the eighteenth-century Acadians. After the French and Indiana War, the Acadians were forced...
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Saving the Bayou

Magazine article by Lawrence Wells; E, Vol. 11, November 2000

Subjects:

Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve, Louisiana--Environmental aspects, Louisiana--Environmental aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...Radlauer, spreading an aerial map on a counter in Lafitte, Louisiana. Radlauer places her palm on the map showing the Mississippis...rooted in French and Spanish custom -- the descendants of Acadians who migrated here from Nova Scotia in the 18th century make...

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French Canadians Trek to Louisiana to Meet Their Kin: Acadians Celebrate Ties to Cajuns

Newspaper article by Robert Buckman; The Washington Times, August 10, 1999

Subjects:

Louisiana

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Canadians trek to Louisiana to meet their kin: Acadians celebrate ties...brings together the Acadians of Canadas Maritime...the Cajuns of Louisiana, one people separated...A few hundred Acadians made their way to French Louisiana, which soon would...
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Crossing Cultures; French, Other Flavors Are Most Welcome at Louisiana Festival

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 24, 2003

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...and zydeco, or from Francophone countries. South-central Louisiana is the logical venue, having long been the crossroads of people...far-flung shores: French colonists and their Creole descendants; Acadians, or Cajuns, expelled from Nova Scotia by the British in the...
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Mountain Musicians Lend Ear to Louisiana

Newspaper article by Mark Longaker; The Washington Times, July 27, 2000

Subjects:

Augusta

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...22-parish (read "county") area in southwest Louisiana that Cajuns and Creoles call home. This...blood of these musicians. Like many Acadians, Mr. LeJeune, 49, grew up speaking Cajun...parallel reality also exists in southern Louisiana, where Creoles and Cajuns live side by...
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End-of-Summer Celebration a Spicy Mix of Cajun Culture

Newspaper article by Robert Buckman; The Washington Times, August 30, 2000

Subjects:

Louisiana

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Scotia is the ancient homeland of the Acadians, who were deported by the British in...really developed as one of the premier Louisiana festivals, like Jazz Fest in New Orleans...subculture. Interest resurfaced as well in Louisiana, where for generations Cajun children...
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THE CRADLE OF ACADIE; Drama Found in Landscape, History of Nova Scotia's Fundy Bay Coast

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 29, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...who know that the Acadians are the ancestors...directly from Acadia to Louisiana, Mrs. Melanson says...After Spain secured Louisiana in the 1763 Treaty...in 1785 to have Acadians shipped there if...Twelve hundred Acadians in France were put...major migration to Louisiana, the interpreter...

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Louisiana

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...trading center. The Spanish government welcomed thousands of Acadians (see Acadia ), known there as Cajuns, and they settled what...colonies. After Spain declared war on Great Britain in 1779, Louisianas governor, Bernardo de Galvez, became an active ally of the...
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Acadia

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Acadiana" or "Cajun Country," around St. Martinville in S Louisiana, where the Cajuns maintain a distinctive culture. The sufferings...Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland (2005...
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Lafayette

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...to the Intracoastal Waterway ); settled 1770s by exiled Acadians, inc. 1836. Known as the hub of Cajun Country (see Acadia...childrens museums, and the Cajun Dome stadium. The Univ. of Louisiana at Lafayette is there, and the city is the scene of an annual...

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