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"mythical Acadian heritage"


Carl Brasseaux and Winston Deville said many interesting things about Evangeline Parish and surrounding parishes. 

Journal of Popular Culture
Volume 23
Summer 1989
Pages 3-22
Brasseaux, Carl
Four Hundred Years of Acadian Life in North America

Page 10-11
"Indeed, the traditional prairie Creole settlement was designated Evangeline Parish in 1910 in honor of its officially recognized, but appropriately mythical Acadian heritage." --Brasseaux, Carl


De Ville, Winston, "'Cajuns' and Neo-ethnicity: Concerns of an Acadian-American Genealogist," National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 89 (March 2001)

Ask for those copies at your library.  Get a headache and then go get drunk, Jack.

Evangeline Parish French Creole Heritage

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