Acadian Memorial - St.Martinville, Louisiana
St. Martinville ~ Each year during early spring, the Acadian Memorial prepares a gathering of Cajun family and friends in the historic city of St. Martinville. This year on March 19th, celebrate the Acadian Museums program of the history, heritage, traditions, culture, and story of the Acadian/Cajuns of Louisiana inside the museum and memorial, and outside in the Evangeline Oak Park situated along the Bayou Teche.
The festival goal is to remind us of the need to preserve and protect the Cajun traditions, to communicate the authenticity of the strong culture, to make the site/history come alive, to solidify the fit with the community, and to collaborate with the community and the surrounding areas.
The Cajuns are known around the world as the symbol of Louisiana; people are attracted to their warm culture. Hosting this colorful museum style festival fosters pride in Louisiana's Acadian legacy, creating a closer understanding of their unique influence on the Acadiana area and the entire state.
The Acadian Memorial Foundation and Staff invites you to participate, engage in Cajun traditions, with a sense of stepping back in time with a reenactment of the Acadians arrival in Louisiana during the mid 1700s. Join with the Acadians make this family, museum-style festival a day of fun and discovery.
This year's honored families are Boudreaux and Guillotte. (2011)
Singers in video clip of Band - Gracie and Julie Babineaux (aka The Babineaux Sisters)
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Maudit Bayou Teche - Hadley J. Castille
New Acadians - The Basin Brothers
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A Drive into St. Martinville on a Sunday Morning.mp4
The Historic District of St. Martinville is at the heart of the French and Cajun culture of Louisiana. The famous Evangeline Oak, Cultural Heritage Center, Acadian Memorial, Petit Paris Museum and Duchamp Opera House & Mercantile form a network of attractions around the Church Square and Evangeline Oak Park. The downtown area and six buildings are on the National Historic Register. Henry Longfellow's poem Evangeline still draws visitors to the Evangeline Oak and statue.
GMA On the Road: Acadian Memorial and Museum
GMA on the road series continues in St. Martin Parish with the Acadian Memorial and Museum in St. Martinville.
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St.Martinville is a small city in and the parish seat of St.Martin Parish, Louisiana, United States.It lies on Bayou Teche, sixteen miles south of Breaux Bridge, eighteen miles southeast of Lafayette, and nine miles north of New Iberia.
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GMA Dave Trips: Traveling through St. Martin Parish
On this Dave Trip, KATC's Dave Baker takes us through some of St. Martin Parish's most iconic places and scenes.
The Expulsion of the Acadians
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The sad history of state-sponsored ethnic cleansing in North America begins with the story of the British expulsion of the Acadians in 1755. Professor Amy Sturgis explains that the Acadians were peaceful French colonists who had prospered in Nova Scotia. The British forcibly removed the Acadians from their homes and scattered them across North America. The expulsion effectively ended the Acadian way of life forever. How might U.S. history have been different if this first ethnic cleansing had never occurred? How might America be different today if the Acadians' property and rights had been respected? Might the Acadian way of life have influenced the United States for the better?
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Louisiana Acadian (Cajuns) Homes
The Acadians (French: Acadiens, IPA: [akadjɛ̃]) are the descendants of the seventeenth-century French colonists who settled in Acadia (located in the Canadian Maritime provinces — Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, Quebec, and in the US state of Maine). The settlers whose descendants became Acadians did not all come from the same region in France.
In the Great Expulsion of 1755-1763, mostly during the Seven Years' War, British colonial officers and New England legislators and militia deported more than 14,000 Acadians from the maritime region in what could be called an ethnic cleansing . Approximately one third perished. Gradually, some managed to make their way to Louisiana, creating the Cajun population and culture after mixing with others
When the Acadians first arrrived in Louisiana, some put up quick, temporary shelters made of wood and palmetto leaves. The Native Americans had been building such dwellings for years. Built upon a pole frame, palmettos would be uses on the roof (as was straw in France and Acadia). Many also used palmetto for walls until wood could be cut.
When they had the time to build a more substantial structure, they often built homes by putting wood vertically into the ground for walls. These 2nd generation Acadian homes (1766-1827) were either poteaux en terre (post in ground) or planche debout (upright planks). The easiest of the two, poteaux en terre, was to cut logs, strip off the bark, and place it in a hole in the ground. The gaps between the logs would be filled with a mud and straw/moss mixture (bousillage). If they had the time and manpower, they might cut planks from the logs and place the planks vertically in the ground (planche debout) to make the walls (again, filling the gaps with bousillage). Roofs were covered with shingles or wood. These homes were built directly on the ground.
The Acadians soon learned that to build a wooden home on the ground was not the way to go. The occasional flooding and insect damage was terrible to these kinds of homes. Upon arriving in Louisiana, they noted that Creole homes were often built off the ground. This kept the home from water & insects and helped provide better ventilation. The 3rd generation Acadian home (1790-1850) was built on pillars of wood or brick. It was small, averaging about fifteen by twenty-five feet in size. Many had galleries in front. The chimney - made of bousillage at first, later of brick - was on one end of a one-room home. Two-room homes often had the chimney in-between the rooms.
The 4th generation Acadian home (1790-1920) was often larger that previous versions. By the mid-1800s, it was the common type of Acadian house. It has a gallery (porche on the front (and sometimes the back). This served two purposes. It gave them a place to sit to cool off and to socialize. It also allowed for a taller roof to provide room for storage and sleeping quarters. There were stairs to the atttic, usually located on the inside of homes in east Acadiana and outside the homes in west Acadiana. The upstairs sleeping area for the boys was called the garçonniere. The roof was covered with wood shingles at the beginning of this time period, but these were often replaced by corrugated tin roofing later in the 1800s. As the family grew, a separate but connected building was often built to the rear for kitchenspace or a bedroom. The windows had no glass, but were covered by wooden shutters. Some had two rooms side-by-side, with a front door opening up to each. One room was the common family room and kitchen, while the other room was a bedroom for the parents and daughters. As some Acadian families grew in size and wealth, larger homes with multiple rooms would be built.
As the 20th century progressed, most Cajuns began occupying contemporary housing styles, though some still have similar features to the old Acadian homes. Though there are a few 18th century Acadian homes scattered around south Louisiana, they are disappearing. This video of still pics represents only a portion of the snapshots I have collected of old Cajun homes. If you have any old pics your are willing to share with me, please email them to richarddeshotels@gmail.com.
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Expulsion of the Acadians
The Expulsion of the Acadians, also known as the Great Upheaval, the Great Expulsion, the Great Deportation and Le Grand Dérangement, was the forced removal by the British of the Acadian people from the present day Canadian Maritime provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island —an area also known as Acadie. The Expulsion occurred during the French and Indian War and was part of the British military campaign against New France. The British first deported Acadians to the Thirteen Colonies, and after 1758 transported additional Acadians to Britain and France. In all, of the 14,100 Acadians in the region, approximately 11,500 Acadians were deported.
After the British conquest of Acadia in 1710, the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht allowed the Acadians to keep their lands. Over the next forty-five years, however, the Acadians refused to sign an unconditional oath of allegiance to Britain. During the same period, they also participated in various military operations against the British, and maintained supply lines to the French fortresses of Louisbourg and Fort Beauséjour. As a result, the British sought to eliminate any future military threat posed by the Acadians and to permanently cut the supply lines they provided to Louisbourg by removing them from the area.
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Mom's Birth Home St Martinville, La 1
Pulling up to Mom's birth home and where she grew up before getting married and moving to Galveston, Texas. This is in St. Martinville, La.
best ever story of the Acadian Deportation & Evangeline, by Oscar
a 7yr old's version of the Acadian Deportation - see also, ancient history 1999 - and why you should see Evangeline at Confederation Centre in PEI this summer. :)
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Louisiana History of The Breaux/Broussard genealogy..Narrated by Daniel J Breaux 15th Great Grandson of
Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil (1702 - 1765)
French and Indian War
Birthplace: Port-Royal, Acadie
Death: Died September 4, 1765 in Broussard, St. Martin Parish, Louisiana
Occupation: BONA ARSENAULT:V.6, P.2444, Militia Leader
Cajun
Acadian-Creoles or Cajuns (/ˈkeɪdʒən/; French: les Cadiens or les Acadiens, [le kadjɛ̃, lez‿akadjɛ̃]) are an ethnic group mainly living in the U.S. state of Louisiana, consisting of the descendants of Acadian exiles (French-speakers from Acadia in what are now the Maritimes).
While Lower Louisiana had been settled by French colonists since the early 17th century, the Cajuns trace their roots to the influx of Acadian settlers after the Great Expulsion from their homeland during the French and English hostilities prior to the Seven Years' War (1756 to 1763). The Acadia region to which modern Cajuns trace their origin consisted largely of what are now Nova Scotia and the other Maritime provinces, plus parts of eastern Quebec and northern Maine. Since their establishment in Louisiana the Cajuns assimilated the Colonial Louisiana French-Choctaw patois dialect and culture, known among them as Cajun French, and adopted many Creole folkways, adopted Zydeco as music, and cuisine. The Old Creole Parishes (now known as the Acadiana region) is heavily associated with them.
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Saint Martinville Mardi Gras 2008
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