#acadiana

[fishtank-thinktank]

Let’s play every Acadian and Creole‘s favorite game: who’s your mama and what’s your last name, the game in which we determine if we are related or not

[stone-cold-groove]

Scenes from home, past and present.

[verifiablebot]

acadiana en juillet

[glitterkittythefabulous]

TS Arthur is kicking our butts more than any recent hurricane has. The flooding is so bad.

[orlandowut12]

[thebisexualmandalorian]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Fandom: Original Work Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Characters: Original Female Character(s) Additional Tags: Southern Gothic, Gothic, Major Character Undeath, Resurrection, folk magic, traiteurs, Louisiana 

Summary: "I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live"

[hetrosjistin]

Cajun History and what that has to do with Palestine

Yo, you reading this? You got opinions about the fucking war in Gaza right now? You from South Louisiana like me? Then you know about the Acadian Exodus, Evangeline, the whole expulsion of the Acadians from Canada?

You ever wonder why the fuck it happened? Cause it obviously wasn't the British throwing all the french out of Canada, not with Quebec just sitting there. (Seriously, this was something that felt super implied by my teachers growing up and I have to wonder why the FUCK the whole alliance with the Wabanaki and the familial ties to the Mi'kmaq were left out of my education, maybe not wonder HARD but it's still there)

It's because the Acadians refused to turn on their Wabanaki Confederate Allies following the french and indian war, specifically the Miꞌkmaq, who the Acadians had a long history of intermarriage with. We were proof that you could integrate, peacefully, with the natives of a place and find common cause, family, and grow together. Everything the people leading Israel have proven they cannot be.

So I don't want to hear ANY shit from ANY Cajun down here about Palestinians except "Free Palestine" because boys and girls, that was our ancestors. That was us once upon a time. We are the descendants of the survivors of Genocide, the ones who refused to turn on others for their own benefit and while we've ALL had shit moments, personally and in our families, since then, that has to be something we stick too.

[twistingtreeancestry]

Acadian Day (LA)

While this day is to celebrate the resilience, contribution, and culture of Acadians, it's also Native American Heritage Day, so I'd also like to celebrate and thank the Wabanaki Confederacy, specifically the Mi'kmaq, Penobscot, and Wolastoqey Nations.

Without the Mi'kmaq Nation accepting the French colonizers onto their land and extending a hand of peace and teaching, the French would not have easily survived, if at all.

Thanks to the bravery and resistance of the Penobscot and Wolastoqey Nations, some of the Acadians were able to evade capture, deportation, and death. If not for them, there would have been nothing for the returning Acadians to come home to.

Thanks to all of them, the Acadians were able to settle deep roots that would resound through time.

Wela'lin, Mi'kmaq Nation.

Woliwoni, Penobscot Nation.

Woliwon, Wolastoqey Nation.

We owe more than we could ever repay to you.

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In honor of my ancestors who came to Nova Scotia from France and those who left Nova Scotia to France or Louisiana.

|| Paternal Grandfather's Father's Line

Charles Olivier Miquel Guillot (1746 Nova Scotia, CA - 1845 Louisiana, USA) and his wife Madeline Josephe [Boudreaux/Boudrot] Guillot (1744 Nova Scotia, CA - N/A).

Charles' father, Jean Baptiste Guillot (1720 Nova Scotia, CA - 1759 Atlantic Ocean).

Jean's mother, Marguerite [Doiron] Guillot (1669 Nova Scotia, CA - 1759 Nova Scotia, CA).

Marguerite's parents, Jean Doiron (1677 Nova Scotia, CA - 1735 Nova Scotia, CA) and Marie Anne [Trahan] Doiron (1671 Nova Scotia, CA - 1710 Nova Scotia, CA).

Mary Anne's parents, Guillaume Trahan (1611 France - 1682 Nova Scotia, CA) and Madeleine [Brun] Trahan (1645 France - 1700 Nova Scotia, CA).

Madeleine's parents, Vincent Brun (1611 France - 1693 Nova Scotia, CA) and Marie Renee [Breau] Brun (1616 France - 1686 Nova Scotia, CA).

|| Paternal Grandmother's Mother's Line

Silvain Sonnier, Sr. (1736 Nova Scotia, CA - 1801 Louisiana, USA) and his wife Marie Magdeleine [Bourg] Sonnier (1744 Nova Scotia, CA - 1814 Louisiana, USA).

Jean Baptiste Granger (c1741 Nova Scotia - 1842 Louisiana, USA) and his wife Susanne [Cormier] Granger (c1763 Nova Scotia, CA - 1800 Louisiana, USA).

Alexandre Aucoin (1725 Nova Scotia, CA - 1780 France) and his wife Isabelle [Duhon] Aucoin (c1750 Nova Scotia - 1817 Louisiana, USA).