Knowing the difference doesn't mean you need to be able to distinfuish them by sight. It means you know the history and nothing more. Thank you for sharing this information! I love it!!
Cajuns are often mixed with three tribes from Canada and the Houma of Louisiana. Creoles are most often Spanish/proper French/ black and native American. Some families mixed . They didn't just come here they were pushed out of France, burned out of Canada and wound up on lands that would not grow crops . The swamps
@@cuauhtemocthethird Whelp. At least you Publicly Admit who (and What) you are. I hope you just as proudly accept the inevitable Consequences of same.🕊️
@@joiisler8986 I'm from Mexico but people say I look like a East European Jew so I actually don't know who I'm supposed to hate but I'm with whoever is winning you know
I still remember meeting people in the swamp that didn’t speak English, only slang French. Louisiana has to be one of the most interesting states I’ve ever visited. Huge plus that I absolutely love the food.
I stayed in Church point for a few months. I met several people that spoke only Cajun French. The best part of the whole experience was the food and the people. Everybody took care of each other.
As a Nova Scotian it always amazes me that nobody was taught that elsewhere. Acadians and cajuns? Y'all got the short end for daring to believe the natives were people too even having kids with em. The expulsion is barely taught about these days and it's depressing that public school seems to be a government decided curriculum that neglects to ever teach the governments past failings, almost suspicious, innit?
Thank you for using the cover of the book “they say the wind is red” when you mentioned indigenous peoples as creole. That book is about my mothers’ father’s tribe the MOWA and our fight for acknowledgment as a distinct tribe and not a part of the larger Choctaw nation culturally.
My dad has this book in his giant collection of historic and cultural media, I remember the cover but I never actually got to read it myself. Thank you for commenting about it, that’s amazing! Can’t wait to find and read it now
@@LivingDeadBabyDoll please do. This book has been around since the 90s and unfortunately never had the impact our tribe wanted, the MOWA are still considered a band of Choctaw. Hopefully if enough people learn about us, we can try again with more success.
@@SoulsInsanitythanks for mentioning this, I didn't know but I'll definitely check it out. Sending you much love from the Eastern door. #NYMohawk #BearClan #Taino
This is important for foods because you need to know if it's going to be cajun or creole style. For example, greole gumbo (a popular soup down here) is known for having duck, onions, or tomatoes. A traditional cajun style will have chicken and sausage. And keep in mind that some people over here will go bonkers of you get it wrong.
It gets nuts. Most of the time, it’s a mix. You get étouffée, gumbo, blue crab, frog legs, fried pickles and a side of lagniappe and a kiss from your momma! C'est Si Bon
As a Nola (creole) I can proudly say you did Louisiana justice with this one sir. Thank you, I definitely just learned something I never knew myself even being native.
I lived in Mandeville for a while, right on the shore of Lake Pontchartrain, directly parallel to New Orleans. My home’s perimeter was a wall of bamboo. When we moved there and my daughter saw the bamboo, she was shocked, came running back up into the house (it sits on 9ft columns) “You didn’t tell me we moved out of America!!” 😂 It’s the most perfect city in the United States, as far as I’m concerned. Virtually no crime, no litter, everyone’s friendly. Summer night vibe is fireflies, twinkle lights, massive willow trees, the smell of magnolia & fresh lemonade, and the faint sound of live smooth jazz playing somewhere at the lakefront park..usually just a couple of teenagers with their instruments.. You’d swear it didn’t really exist in America if you’ve never been there. One of my closest friends is a 60 year old creole woman ..she taught me how to make all of these amazing meals. As a Long Islander far from home, i’d never even heard of mirliton before she showed me how to stuff one with shrimp lol. Louisiana has my whole heart.
@@runawayfaeIX my mother was diagnosed terminal and I sold everything to move in with her and take care of her til she passed. I lost her 6 months after I moved .. Edit: there was absolutely no way she was going to spend her last days on earth in a nursing home. I stayed here to take care of my elderly-disabled father until mom calls him. I’m tethered as a caretaker, but my children and I are giving my father the love and care, and pep in his step that he needs to have a more fulfilling life. I’ll find my way back to paradise, one day ..
Louisiana has one of the most interesting and unique cultures In North America based on what I've heard. It's the birthplace of Jazz too, as a jazz nerd I would love to visit one day.
I was born and raised in rural Nova Scotia. I met some people from Lafayette. I was shocked by their accent. They sounded like they were from where I was raised in Nova Scotia. My ancestors are from UK and Germany. Amazing after so much time has past that we still have much in common. Acadian's influenced Nova Scotia culture and can still be felt today.
Well in MN we have a lot of people who came from Sweden and still make up part of our culture. Basically the USA is a huge melting pot of the world which make one of the most unique countries in the world and one of the greatest. It also cause us to have a problem with racism. Other other coutries do not have the racism like we do mainly because they have mostly one culture and one group who make a huge majority of the people. In almost every country in the world the minority population tends to be looked down on. But I though it was so funny Europe calling out our racism for decades and then they started to get all the Syrians refugees and they are having the same problem we with excepting strangers who have a total different belief system then the majority.
@@JAM661 Canada is about as multicultural as it gets. The city of Toronto is most notable. Not every culture is a good fit for immigration. The immigration policies failed to discriminate when it was necessary for unity and state security. There are many examples. Multiculturalism has always led to conflict over different values and competition for resources going back to antiquity. My guess is that the Swedish immigrants have fit in nicely in Minnesota. Much like Dutch farmers have settled well where I was raised. Even though there was jealousy because the Canadian government granted the Duth farmers land rights over the original Canadian families. The culture is compatible with North America
Thanks for sharing. Ive moved to Louisiana and was a bit fascinsted by the distinct culture. Lafayette accent has a bit of a different sounding accent as compared to other parts of southern louisiana. New orleans has maybe 5 different accents, one around metarie and kenner some other and most famously distinctive is chalmette a suburb to the east side. Really distinctive crazy sounding accent (no offense). Every time i hear someone i ask them their home town. I would say there are maybe 20 different sounding accents in southern louisiana. Vachery has a distinctive accent as does Gramercy. Its all very interesting to me. Its going to dissapear now with how things are changing society and economy and travel and internet entertainment influence. The sad thing is the french language dissapearing.
This the first correct definition of the difference between a Cajun and a Louisiana Creole I have seen on RU-vid! Great Job!! Take it from a New Orleans born, Louisiana raised half Cajun, half Creole, 100% Coonass historian, this the correct definition!!
i’m from Creole, Louisiana my grandfather was French and my grandmother is Mexican, absolutely love the culture my coonass moved to Cecilia now i’m a Cajan
"Cajun" is a distorsion of the French word "Acadien", the people who occupied Acadia, a part of New Bruswick (I'm not sure if they are from Nova Scotia). In French, "Acadien" us pronounced Ah-Cah-Dzee-Yien. The "Ah" sound was dropped. "Cah" morphed into a "Kay" sound while the "Dzee-Yien" evolved into "Jun". Some Cajuns actually returned to New Brunswick.
Acadiens settled in parts of what's now New Brunswick, Noa Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. 1755-1764 was Le Grand Dérangement. British forced our ancestors away form their land onto boats and forced to leave. Some went back to France then down to what's now Louisiana. Those are the Cajuns. Some of my ancestors and many others made their way to Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia. Others went up the St. John River and settled in what's called the St. John Valley which includes part of northern Maine and western New Brunswick. I happened to be there in 2014 for the Congrès Mondial Acadien. There are more places that Acadiens moved to after the British forced our ancestors away, and some of us have traced our genealogy back to Le Grand Dérangement, but there's this problem where the British destroyed any records they could find and most of us can't trace back our ancestors beyond that point in time.
@chasm9557 That's interesting, especially when it's history that is not always included in a school board's curriculum. It is particularly disheartening to hear of records being destroyed for whatever reason, but worst of all, to cover up wrongdoings. I'm glad to have read your account, and I liked reading it, but I'm not going to press "like" because I don't like the injustice.
@@Polytrout If you're interested in learning more, there's plenty of information available between New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia. I've also heard good things about the Acadian Archives in Fort Kent Maine, but haven't had a chance to visit myself. There are also plenty of Acadian historical sites, and those I've been to have all been worth the trip in my opinion. I would recommend if you don't speak French that you be more careful when selecting a destination since some places in the maritime provinces are purely French speaking and not bilingual.
@chasm9557 I'm due for a trip to the Maritimes. I will indeed make it a point to check out some sites. Since one of the provinces I'm aiming for is New Brunswick I reckon many of the places could be French only. I lived 7 years in Quebec City and 8 years, though in Ontario, with my Québécoise wife (I may not necessarily understand the local Acadien slang, (they all speak a more standard French when dealing with outsiders) the displays would use a formal, literary French; as you probably know, these Acadiens aren't really uneducated and illiterate - that's just a Toronto impression/stereotype (prejudice?). Anyway, thanks for the heads up.
As you travel across the United States, you discover that there are almost as many cultures as there are counties! In my travels, I found the U.S.A. to be so incredibly diverse and interesting... and loved the regional foods with few exceptions. Before traveling internationally, Americans should take advantage of the cultures right here, at home, first! You won't be disappointed!
It's a lot easier to experience more while traveling internationally though 😂 I went to Europe for the first time this summer and got to see three different countries while driving the same distance that would be exactly the same here in the US.
@@CreativeC13 you should learn more of your local history 😊 it's only in the last generation or two that states became so blended and meaningless, truly fascinating if you look down and recognize how unique each states history is and their people ❤ I love to travel, but it makes me love my home all the more
Counties are small geographic areas. There are over 3,000 counties in the U.S., though in the southern U.S., a county is called a "parrish," and NYCity has "boroughs," one of which is Manhattan.
I grew up 2 hours from the Texas-Louisiana state line and let me tell you, it’s like a whole nother world there. Plenty of people speak languages I’ve never heard of, eat foods that I’ve never seen before, and play music you can’t find anywhere else.
Back in the 90s when AOL was still a major part of getting people online, I used to participate in a message board about the south. One of the recurring themes was the debate over whether we in Texas and those in Florida counted as the south. I told them at minimum, *_East_* Texas did, because if I were to drop you off in the middle of nowhere along the Texas -Louisiana border and you didn't have a map or a guide, I would defy you to tell me which one you were in based on either the accents or the flora and fauna.
Idk, I live in northern Louisiana (born and raised in Arkansas) and I have yet to encounter any Cajun culture. All there is up here is Popeye's, the occasional crawfish boil, and fleur des lis decorations. Kinda just feels like someone sprinkled a little Tony's on generic southern rural culture. I would like to visit New Orleans sometime to see what it's really like - I haven't been there since I was too young to remember.
@@cailin5301Hi. Yes, North Louisiana is pretty much the same as East Texas, Arkansas, and Mississippi. A border running thru Alexandria would make sense lol. Good people and fascinating history on both sides!
I was at my friends the other night and we were talking about our Acadian ancestry here in Canada. He mentioned one of his ancestors being exiled twice. He was sent down to the states, walking all the way back up to marry have children and only to be exiled again. We both descend from the women sent over in the 1600s known as the Fille du Roi.
Cajun here! My Dad was born in Kaplan Louisiana in 1919. Our family name is Suire. We were one of the first Exiled families in France One Grandparent is descended directly from France to Louisiana, they were actually deported having broken a law and deported to Louisiana when it was still part of France then one came to Louisiana by way of Nova Scotia. My Dad was the swampiest swamp Cajun you'd ever want to meet 💖
Almost everyone descended from "French Canadian" is the descendant of a Fille du Roi, which is crazy to think of, when you consider there were less than 1000 of them!
@@TheHaywire924 It's more like "daughters of the king", since these were mostly orphans who depended on the state for survival. The same way we sometimes say that foster kids are under "the care of the state."
The painting of the native lady looking over her shoulder is one of my husband's ancestors. She and her husband had a part in our nation's founding. They were very good spies against the crown.
I'm French and grew up in the Western part of France! Part of my ancestors are from there. I have a lot of very distant cousins in Quebec, and the amazing Louisiana culture means a lot to me. Excellent short video! Merci beaucoup!😅
I’m a Creole here. I noticed most people use the two interchangeably and they don’t really know that there’s a difference. The foods have blended so much that’s probably why I’d imagine. It’s the food most people think of when they hear Creole and Cajun unless they from Louisiana, and they actually know what it is.
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This is the way all over the damn planet. And it's always bthis way. way.
Creole really only gets mentioned in a few movies and the biggest was probably Interview with the Vampire and he didn't explain what it meant Everything exported says Cajun, on it and they aren't going to research the difference
My dad grew up in lousiana. If your crawfish boil wedding reception is in the holler with all 127 cousins its a cajun wedding. We had to drive through a cow pasture to get there. I grew up in backwoods illinois and missouri and I felt like the city boy at that wedding.
There isn't much of a difference in SW Louisiana. My family there (and many of the neighboring families) who call themselves Creoles are mixed with French, Native, African, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and even Jewish, but they're all direct descendants of the French Acadian exiles who settled there, so they're literally Cajuns too.
Creol in Portuguese means born on the continent. In colonial Spanish America, Criollos, which sounds similar to Creol, meant unmixed spaniards as opposed to spaniards mixed with Native Americans or mixed with Africans.
Creolo in portugues means to breed. It was originally used to describe my people. cape Verdians” The original Criolos”. It’s just a mix of multiple language and culture. Usually European, African, etc..
Actually Criollo mean " Spanish Person not born in Spain or born off spain" Basically you are a non Peninsular spaniard. It was a social/caste system. My guess is these terms were used because they didnt trust their nationality (xenophobic) so therefore were considered "second class citizens" basically not TRUE Spaniard citizens just subjects. SMH.
As a born and raised creole women from southwest Louisiana, this was done so respectfully. I do want to add that when thinking in terms of food just know most is creole as gumbo is obviously a black ( native, African) word and a lot of the rich sauce type foods are considered creole and not Cajun. However, like the host in video pointed out, we are so intertwined that it is hard to distinguish!
@@chrisbro1849 You can’t really identify as those things, you either are or you aren’t. He looks white in the video but that doesn’t mean he isn’t creole as creole also encompasses people of European ancestry. I don’t know how much you know about Spain and Portugal but a lot of them have white skin as well, always have.
As a Cajun who just visited your country last December, my wife and I love your country. We even named our first born son Zealand. We hope to move there one day
My second cousin married a full blooded Cajun who had some Creole. On a visit to the 1984 Worlds Fair, they took me to me their extended family on the shores of Lake Verret. It was a wonderful experience. Great people.
I don't know what it is about Cajuns and Creoles (I grew up outside Chicago and I live in the Midwest) but I've visited Louisiana and the culture just feels like home. The people, the food, the music... Undeniably the best part of the US
I was born in Cape Verde ( a small country in Africa colonized by Portugal) we call ourselves “Crioulo”, and we speak Cape Verdean Creole, we speak Portuguese also. I didn’t know about the others “Creole” before coming to America. 😊
@@LanceDa510 I never said there was only one creole. I said when I was there I didn’t know about the other ones, because internet wasn’t the same that it is today. I know the definition of creole thank you
I used to think that creole itself was a specific language spoken the same way by every group that spoke creole. It helps now that people are more specific when they say it, like Haitian creole.
@@majorlazor5058this is the deep south USA we're talking about and these cultures were developing alongside chattel slavery of black people and racial segregation so there being a divergence along racial lines isn't very surprising to me
Thank you for the video. I am Creole. My mother still speaks Creole French. People do get offended when they get labeled the wrong culture. Both have the best food in the world. My sister made a gumbo last week. Choooooo
There are still white creoles alive today, but nowadays they call themselves Cajun (even though none of their ancestors were Acadian), because as you said it, most people just separate it down the racial line.
As a Cajun when i moved away to FL and went to a restaurant that miss spelled it when naming a dish on their menu. I asked, "what yall doing to make it Cajun? Because i want to know because I am a Cajun." That girl looked at me and said, "oh you are named after a seasoning?" Nearly broke my soul.
Has not been a time in traveling this country that I have not come across some "Cajun" restaurant. We used to stop in just to see. We don't even waste our time now, its NEVER actually good Had an uncle move to Cali. Told us some local place had a chef from "back home" that "flew in" ingredients Told him "ive heard this all before and its always BS" He kept talking about how good it was and this dish Redbeans Ahnjoulay Had me meet the chef and everything when we ordered Opened up the beans and there were carrots in it -_-, but thats not where this falls apart I take the menu because I want to know how much hes jacking these people out there on this "authentic" food Thats when I saw it.... when I stopped laughing I asked him what it was called again "Ahnjoulay" he says I said "You mean Andouille"? (ahn-dew-we for you uninitiated who may read this) and told him he's been gone to long and should be ashamed of himself His wife laughed, he didn't.... 🤣
Well said man. My ancestors were immigrants from France to New Orleans. When I tell people I’m Creole, far too many of them look at me and say “HuR dUr YoU dOnT lOoK bLaCk”
Cajuns are generally white descendants from France while the Creoles are others. Usually when white people “settle/colonize” a place they separate themselves immediately from the other demographics of people. Don’t get mad at the others to not want to include you in something your ancestors created for them
Creoles of Color were the largest and most recent group to make any distinctions or export any of that culture specifically Black movies mention it in connections to Voodoo and New Orleans specifically and so a lot of people and almost all blacks outside of Louisiana think that creole means light skinned blacks from the New Orleans area not understanding it means any of us who had family in the colony
I’m from the gulf coast, Mobile Alabama, which was the capital of French Louisiana before the Louisiana purchase and about 100 miles from New Orleans, got plenty family in New Orleans as well. Cajuns were basically French white/Native American blend… and Creole’s were African, Portuguese and/or French heritage.. The word basically translates to “Native or Local” So a creole could be of mixed lineage or not but from that particular community or colony.
@myke6135 - "Don't get mad" that people are being racist and denying him his ethnicity because his skin colour doesn't match? All cause some isolated white people from way back who are dead now did some stuff? Stuff that black and brown people all across the world still enforce within their societies (slavery)? So... just accept modern racism cause people with a certain skin colour deserve it by proxy of ancient dead white skinned people?
The food is banging. I’m in SE TX and the food from both Cajun and Creole culture are staples. My family had gumbo for Christmas and Thanksgiving. It’s never too hot to eat it. 👏🏾
@bossfan49 , I thought I'd die without knowing the difference, but phew! Thank God for this man explaining it to us!... One thing is not like the other, but they are the same, and you can't tell the difference... that explains it all! 😂😅😅😅
Too much mixing like what are creoles when there a mixture of 5 ethnic groups 😂always confused me ...glad I'm no creole though 🎉I'm happy being Meztizo
Lol Thank Youuu!!! my wife's family is full on Cajun just as you described and I'm a native with our rez just next door and we are both from rural crawfish country. We also travel all around and EVERYTIME we tell someone we're from Louisiana, their first response is always: "oh, I love 'New Orleans" .... and we're just like, lemme explain:
Girl to be creole you have to directly be born in France then move here. The family is Cajun up until children are born on us soil. Those children are now creole unlike their Cajun parents
I hate how little the school system teaches about the cultures of the us. I hear so many people of other countries saying americans have no culture when in reality there are atleast 11 major unique cultures
Because according to the school system it’s negative to speak positively about any white cultures, positivity surrounding culture can only be applies to poc and inversely you can only teach bad things white people did, if you teach bad things poc did it’s racist white supremacy.
@@diswazzi1683 no they don't. Stop lying. My whole school career covered only African slaves,Christopher Columbus, The native Americans and the pilgrims.
I grew up 45 miles across the line in Texas from Louisiana, I love my Creole and Cajun neighbors; God blessed them with good food, beautiful women and a proud sense of character. Going home for Christmas, I’m getting me some boudin and mudbugs while there.
Orange County Texas here! I travel for work and “goin’ home” is such a reward for me. I love my lil piece of swamp on the TXLA line. Boudin, BUGS, gumbo, jambalaya and pistolettes at home are unbeatable. We know how to eat.
I am from New Orleans and I have been to 13 countries and 39 states. We absolutely have the best food. I won a trip to the Marlboro ranch in Montana and they ran a close second.
I was born in the early ‘90s and started reading & collecting comics in kindergarten. For the longest time, Gambit was the only frame of reference I had for Cajun people.
As a generational descendant of French settlers my ancestors had broken from the mainland of Nova Scotia and were peacefully living in Cape Breton. I hail from a mixture of French and Aboriginal Mi'kmaq peoples on the east coast of Canada. It's nice to see the message.
Dude, thank you so much for making this video. I have been trying to explain to my wife what I am and when I tell her black white Mexican Indian she’s like what are you talking about?
The term creole was originally used by “black” people to differentiate themselves from Africans who recently arrived as slaves. It says it on the French creole website.
Actually, the word as it originated in colonial Mexico was "criolla" and it specified Spaniards born and raised in the New World. The word came to Louisiana during the time Louisiana was Spanish. New Orleans mulattos call themselves "Creoles" erroneously. Creoles were Spanish colonials.
Yt people steal everything. I bet most yt people don't even know why the French sold them Louisiana for cheap. They were afraid the new freed Haitians would come across the waters and incite the black folks n America to revolt. And they come in these comments trying to Gaslight people like history don't exist. Creol don't belong to yall but yall still took it, just like how humans beings didn't belong to yall but you guys still had owned them.
I love learning about all the different people in this country and how they came to be here and the contributions they make to the country and how they have influenced our culture. So many different people who came together and made us one.
I really NEEDED this!! Peter Santenello just did a docu & the store owner/ costume maker was trying to explain Native Am & Afro connections but the docu fell short on REALLY explaining it!
Yes, thank you for this I am Creole, we still teach the language, culture & customs in my family but in my travels people have almost always called me “Cajun” which is not an insult by any means because I love them too, they are my family, but it’s just nice when someone knows the difference & the two languages are not very intelligible to each other though I’ve grown up hearing & answering to both, but tbh, people who aren’t from the rural areas don’t truly understand the sense of community that exists out there.
I'm glad to hear people are working to preserve these cultures! I'm from the Midwest, but my family has often mentioned that we have "cajun roots." Unfortunately, nobody could ever tell me much about the culture (as far as I knew as a kid, "cajun" referred to a specific spice mix we had in the cabinet).
Canadian from down east here; I’m a Cajun (Acadian) from the group of leftovers that didn’t go to the meeting with the English but hid in the forest. I love how our traditions are still surviving in Louisiana!!! I hear our French names on tv shows and the French slang that we still use. ❤
And that’s exactly how to explain it. Well done guys. Being born and raised as one and am damn proud of it. But the rest of y’all come on down for a spell and let us show you what hospitality and friendship is all about.
Thank you! I’m a Canadian of Loyalist descent whose ancestors fought FOR the King at the time of the American Revolution and were exiled in 1784 to Upper Canada now Ontario. Your explanation was clear and elucidating. Merci. !!
My time living in NOLA was the most fun and interesting time. I lived learning the cultures of both groups. America is amazing in how much amazing blending has taken place.❤
Very informative. As a hobbyist cook, I have found that there are also significant differences in the Creole and Cajun cuisines as well. Both delicious by the way.
😮I lived in Louisiana for 4 years in Cajun land. Close to the Texan border. . I find the people very welcoming, much more than in the Eastern cities. They also enjoy life. They have Fait dodo parties every Friday where they dance and enjoy Cajun food. There is much to say about Cajuns besides their excellent , traditional food.
Thank you for being correct, I remember I had to learn all of this and in “my Louisiana notebook” project I had in 2nd grade I believe. I traveled all across the state to gather information for the notebook and my dad sold gas back home, so I got to meet PLENTY of good ole Cajun, creole boys with some awesome and colorful stories; that’s how I learned about the roux Garoux too😁
Exactly, well said. My mother was born in New Iberia and raised in New Orleans. Her six children were born in California where she moved after WWII. Everything you say is correct.
Was on a flight with my brother and mom. Stewardess asked us a question. I quickly responded with " I know that southern accent comes from Louisiana but are you Cajun or a coonass?" Later when asking if we wanted meals I said " unless it's what I smelled a bit ago I would say no". She responded "oh that was my crawfish ettuifette" a bit later she brought me her leftovers. My brother couldn't believe it. Later after we landed and waiting in an airport restaurant she was walking past and we each took notice of one another I motioned for her to join us and she did. My mom was besides herself as I closed the deal with " I thought you Cajun gals weren't allowed out of the state? because, you are the first that I have met. My best friend in the navy was from lake Charles". She chuckled and said well "I never dead head so I am always home when not flying". She then wrote her number and gave it to my mom and said " make sure he calls me". Best stewardess of all time.
Thank you so much!!!!! I've been clarifying this for years, and I only grew up with a Cajun family that my Dad remarried into. Im very proud to have grown up inthe Cajun lifestyle, and that's become my nickname even though I'm not native Cajun. Love y'all bruh!!
Loved the video. People always wonder why Cajun and Creole get along so good with each other. Well, it’s because we share so many traditions, It’s almost like we’re family to each other. Laissez les bons temps rouler Louisiana!
@@dasselbe2521 were is the correct tense. If you lived in Cecilia and Breaux Bridge, you'd know why I say that. I could throw a rock blindfolded in any direction and hit an interracial couple.
Love Creole & Cajun culture & food❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ my family blood line is similar to Creole. I'm mixed Caribbean Bahamas ( African & Taino native) & Puerto Rican ( Taino native, African & Spaniard) raised in Florida. Have many Haitian friends. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
This was actually quite educational about a people I’ve long known of as a subset of American culture, but knew very little about. My paternal grandmother was Creole, and according to my Dad his great aunt was a voodoo (vodun) priestess with a pet gator 🐊. He recalls her being well respected (but also a bit feared) by the community. Great video! I enjoyed learning some new things about that branch of my family lineage.
The video left out the fact that the Nova Scotia Acadians did intermarry with Black Loyalists (those who were removed from New York) + Indigenous Native Nova Scotians + the Celts (who from 1629-1632 considered Nova Scotia a Scottish colony). Hence the name Nova (new) Scotia (Scotland). (Side note: Scotia was actually a former Egyptian princess, who grew up in her kingdom at the time of the Prophet Moses. Over time, she met a Greek prince, Gaythelos, who was exiled by his father and went to the Egyptian court. The Egyptian princess fell in love with him and married him. They then eventually due to international politics had to flee north and settled Scotia-Land). Scottish colony claims were surrendered to France in 1632. In 1848 Nova Scotia became a British colony after a battle with France. The period of 1632-1848 the France- Native Indigenous Nova Scotia treaty thrived on coexistence. Much inter-marriage at that time which included the Celts still living there after the King of Scotland surrender the Nova Scotia colony to France. My ancestors and present time family descended from that period and still speak their indigenous languages : Gaelic , Mi'kmaq, L’nu, Cree and a rather unusual French specific to that region (Nova Scotia/New Brunswick/PEI/ Labrador/ Newfoundland / a few islands around there in the Gaspé Peninsula in the Gaspésie-Îles-de-la-Madeleine region of eastern Quebec in Canada as well as those now US states which border Quebec & New Brunswick. And so as tensions mounted between the French and British for control of what is now Canada, Acadia was plundered numerous times by the British, whose New England colony was situated just on the other side of the Gulf of Maine. In 1713, with the Treaty of Utrecht, Acadia was ceded to the British. The Expulsion of the Acadians, also known as the Great Upheaval, the Great Expulsion, the Great Deportation, and the Deportation of the Acadians, was the forced removal, by the British, of inhabitants of parts of a Canadian-American region historically known as Acadia, between 1755 and 1764. 1776 was the year of US independence From 1775-1784 some 3,000 Black Loyalists were evacuated from New York to Nova Scotia; they were individually listed in the Book of Negroes as the British gave them certificates of freedom and arranged for their transportation. The Crown gave them land grants and supplies to help them resettle in Nova Scotia. Some of the European Loyalists who emigrated to Nova Scotia brought their enslaved servants with them, those people gained their freedom in Canada. Other Black Loyalists were evacuated to London or the Caribbean colonies. Thousands of enslaved people escaped from plantations and fled to British lines, especially after British occupation of Charleston, South Carolina. When the British evacuated, they took many former enslaved people with them. Many ended up among London's Black Poor, with 4,000 resettled by the Sierra Leone Company to Freetown in Africa in 1787. Five years later, another 1,192 Black Loyalists from Nova Scotia chose to emigrate to Sierra Leone, becoming known as the Nova Scotian Settlers in the new British colony of Sierra Leone. Both waves of settlers became part of the Sierra Leone Creole people and the founders of the nation of Sierra Leone. Thomas Jefferson referred to the Black Loyalists as "the fugitives from these States" The American Revolution-also called the U.S. War of Independence-was the insurrection fought between 1775 and 1783 through which 13 of Great Britain's North American colonies threw off British rule to establish the sovereign United States of America, founded with the Declaration of Independence in 1776. The Seven Years' War was a crucial turning point in Canadian history. With the Treaty of Paris of 1763, France formally ceded New France to the British, and largely withdrew from the continent. The Seven Years' War therefore laid the bicultural French/English foundations of modern Canada’s multi cultural law which includes co-governing co-stewardship by First Nations’s indigenous Canadians. The Assembly of First Nations (French: Assemblée des Premières Nations, AFN) is an assembly of Canadian First Nations (Indian bands) represented by their chiefs. Established in 1982 and modelled on the United Nations General Assembly. The historic treaties signed after 1763 provided large areas of land, occupied by First Nations, to the Crown, transferring their Indigenous title to the Crown in exchange for reserve lands and other benefits. The treaty-making process was formally established by the Royal Proclamation of 1763. The Government of Canada recognizes 70 historic treaties in Canada signed between 1701 and 1923. The modern treaty era began in 1973 after the Supreme Court of Canada decision, Calder et al. v. Attorney-General of British Columbia, which recognized Indigenous rights. This decision led to the first modern treaty, the James Bay and Northern Québec Agreement signed in 1975. Since 1975, Canada has signed 26 modern treaties with Indigenous groups in Canada, 18 of which contain self-government provisions or associated self-government agreements. Thanks to the “Land Back” movement, particularly active in 2023 - Indigenous peoples are weaving their own destiny. Lands once torn at the seams are being mended by the bands/tribes via a patchwork of efforts. Manifest Destiny is unraveling as a vision of Indigenous justice unfolds. In 2023, Canada has agreed to pay C$800m (US$600m) to settle a land claims dispute with five First Nations, an acknowledgment it failed to honour a treaty signed more than a century ago - and the latest in a string of deals reshaping the relationship between government and Indigenous communities. As of 2023, there are 26 modern treaties which have been concluded between the Crown and Indigenous peoples, covering over 40 percent of Canada's land mass. The Canadian government started recognizing indigenous specific claims in 1973, whereafter they began negotiating for their settlement. Since then, 1,844 claims have been submitted by First Nation communities. Of these, 935 have been resolved. The Acadians will not get their land back. The settlers whose descendants became Acadians , primarily came from the centerwestern region of France, such as the rural areas of Poitou-Charentes. In some cases Acadians intermarried with Indigenous Peoples, in particular, the Mi'kmaq. Their lands were consideted forfeited to the English by the French. What is the difference between French Canadian and Acadian? Any French person who lived in what is to- day Nova Scotia (including Cape Breton Island), Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, and eastern Maine between 1636 and 1755 is an Acadian. A French- Canadian is a person of French ancestry born in the Saint Lawrence Valley. canadiangeographic.ca/articles/mapping-the-acadian-deportations/
Another side note: In 1796, the Maroons of Jamaica entered Halifax Nova Scotia Canada - and were the first large group to enter British North America (The Canadian Encyclopedia, 2000). As well, the Maroons of Trelawny Town were deported to Nova Scotia after many battles with the English over land and freedom rights. The name Maroons was used to describe slaves who ran away from their owners and created free communities away from the European settlements in Jamaica. Accompong Town community ( the word Accompong is from the Akan Indigenous people’s name Acheampong) is a historical Maroon village located in the hills of St. Elizabeth Parish on the island of Jamaica. I visited Accompong in November 2023, this Jamaican Maroon and indigenous Taíno community established a fortified stronghold in the hilly terrain in the 17th century. They defended it and maintained independence from the Spanish and then later the British, after the colony changed hands. In 1739 the Maroon community was granted certain rights and autonomy by treaty with the British colonial authorities. In two settlements, they set up a traditional form of village government drawn from their Akan (Asante) culture, based on men popularly recognized as leaders. The executive is now called "Colonel-in-Chief", who leads the Maroon Council. These men share executive responsibilities for the community. Since Jamaica gained independence in 1962, it has recognised the political and cultural rights of Maroons. In the early 21st century, the government has acknowledged these rights in terms of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007), including the "right to maintain and strengthen their distinct political, legal, economic, social and cultural institutions." It also acknowledges the "right for self-government in matters relating to local affairs," as well as "ways and means for financing autonomous functions". The war between the Maroons and the British broke out in Jamaica in 1795. The war ended when the British, realizing that victory could not be achieved, tricked the Maroons into laying down their arms and carried them into exile in Nova Scotia (James & Walker, 1984). Governor John Wentworth settled the Maroons, who numbered over 500, on the outskirts of Halifax Nova Scotia, and offered the men jobs to fortify the city military fortress called The Citadel. Over time with dissatisfaction over human rights and land ownership issues, the Maroons mounted a resistance. After numerous appeals to London, the Maroons were allowed to return to Sierra Leone in West Africa in 1800. The "Maroon Bastion" stands on Citadel Hill in Halifax Nova Scotia, as an example of the Maroon legacy and the sense of pride they contributed (James & Walker, 1984). Between 1800 and 1920, small numbers of West Indians immigrated from Jamaica as laborers for the Cape Breton Nova Scotia mines and from the Barbados as well - to work in coal mines in Sydney Nova Scotia.
My family descends from the French Canadian fur trappers, I was always told half of us stayed in Minnesota while the other half floated down the Mississippi and became the Cajuns
Many Acadians also left Louisiana and returned back to Canada. The French had power and it extended from Canada to Louisiana, hence the Feench influence. The Bristish came and during the war, the Acadians were exiled. The British defeated the French, or in Canada, they all would be speaking French. The people in the province of Quebec were able to hold off the British, hence why they speak French and feel a strong tie to France.
@@zeusolympus6341until u meet one and ur one of those people that end up asking the aged old question "what r u" and get cussed out in Cajun or Creole French. Knowledge is not a disease. Embrace it.
Glad you made this video anytime I tell someone that I’m part Cajun they automatically think African but my granny’s dad and mom came from Canadia via France hard to explain because as you said the mixing thats happened overtime
