Both sides of my family are Acadians, farmers from Eastern Canada. They all ran away from the English in Nova Scotia and thus avoided deportation to foreign land. They had to hide in the woods for a 100 years, learning survival skills and trading with the indians. They slowly migrated towards New Brunswick and Quebec and multiplied like rabbits.
Those who got deported on boats as far south as Louisiana were called Cajuns ( from 'cadians) and developed agriculture to provide food for the Spanish troops what had sponsored them. They were cut off from France for 400 years and today have their own linguo, music and food all e-x-t-r-e-m-e-l-y picturesque.
I'm playing the accordion for a marriage this Sunday, so I checked out YouTube for ideas and found this: a cajun wedding song, with strange echoes of longing. These folks stay close to home and party. Who wants to be deported again anyway.
VIDEO BY: CajunAccordeon
If you can't stand this song, click MENU and check out the other videos (Bayou Lafourche wedding, etc...for a different Cajun tune and a happier tone ;-)
2 comments:
What a wonderful collection of old wedding portraits, all done in black and white. I do all my formal wedding photos in both color and bw. Enjoyed this segment immensely. Ciao.
Sure yes indeed !
One more acquired quality because of this illegal and outrageous deportation was and still is the great capacity for alcohol absortion by us, I mean cajuns.
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