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)
Music:
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.
CKCA 80 Evangeline State Park
Karl Tours the Evangeline State Park in St. Martinville, La. Then cooks Pork Chops in Brown Gravy, along with some Navy Beans with Tasso.
Longfellow Evangeline State Park Documentary Sample Only
Here's just a sample of a documentary produced by Holbrook, all in-house.
Holbrook Multi-Media Inc. is a full-service agency, known for producing creative advertising strategies and marketing solutions for clients of all sizes and industries. Based in Lafayette, Louisiana, it is one of the South's most advanced and complete 4K, HD, audio, animation, graphic and web production facilities.
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.
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. :)
Evangeline (1934)
Film depicting the 1755 Expulsion of the Acadians from Grand Pre, Nova Scotia. Silent footage interspersed with written text. Scenes show the Grand Pre Church and various shots of farm life. An actress portrays Evangeline.
Filmmaker: Edward Bollinger
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ACADIANA: Cajun Life (Momming Across America - Episode 1 part 4)
Join the Frey's for professional dress up (and a little history) at Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site in St. Martinville, Louisiana.
We'll visit a Cajun home on Bayou Teche, an old Creole Sugar Plantation, and fire a musket from 1842.
More super fun music by Jourdan Thibodeaux et les Rodailleurs!!! Check 'em out on YouTube, Amazon, iTunes, and Facebook.
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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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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Evangeline Immortalized (REL 3010 docu)
First the legalese: I do not own the rights to Disney's The Princess and The Frog nor do I own rights to any of the music in this movie, all were used under The Fair Use Act for my REL 3010 project documentary about religion in Louisiana. (LSU class). Also, I do not own the rights to the Gus Johnson sound bite, it was just awesome and I refused to not let this documentary get something completely awesome in it.
Now the description: In Acadiana, there is one name that seems to pop up everywhere: Evangeline. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem proved to be a valuable asset to the Cajuns, possibly one of their best ones ever.
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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2505 Le Grand Derangement
If one were to travel through the modern day US state Louisiana, you would quickly be transported to what seems like another world. French language signs adorn the streets as the sounds of Zydeco or Louisiana French folk music fills the air. Most would cite the menagerie of foods combining french peasant recipes with African and native additions cooked into the various creatures inhabiting the bayou or swamps as the most intriguing sight of all. The genesis of this unique culture started far to the north in what is now the modern Canadian Maritime province of Nova Scotia. Dur: 22mins File: .mp3
Possible Course on Acadian History
This is me explaining briefly the course outline of a course that I was thinking of making for eduFire, and for YouTube, on Acadian history. I suppose I could even make it in French as well, and if I wanted to stretch my capacities, try to make it in Japanese too.
But tell me if that seems like a good idea or not!
Oh, and here are the fourteen proposed classes that would make up the course:
1. Samuel de Champlain and Pierre Dugua, Sieur De Monss Commercial Venture
2. The First Winter, Or How Acadians Came to Trust Their New Neighbours
3. Settling Acadia: New Land, New Opportunities
4. France, England, Spain: Acadia Belongs to Who Now?
5. Peace at Last: Acadia Under British Authority
6. Stopping Short of a Genocide: The Great Acadian Upheaval
7. Unwelcomed Guests: The Reception of Acadian Deportees
8. Starting Over: Rebuilding Acadia from Its Ashes
9. Canada and Acadia: Becoming Persons Once Again
10. More For Country Than For King: Acadian Service in the World Wars
11. Louis Robichaud and the Enfranchisement of Acadians
12. Le Parti Acadien: Down with English Capitalism, Long Live Free Acadia!
13. Modern Acadia, Urbanization and Its Development
14. Fort McMurray: The Acadian Remesa and Its Impact on Assimilation
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