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These are some articles that discuss the labels Cajun and Creole. My father made me think of the label question because he always said that we were not Cajuns but white Creoles. Our genealogy and area history supports this claim.


The Cajunization of French Louisiana: Forging a regional identity.
Authors: Trepanier, Cecyle Source: Geographical Journal; Jul91, Vol. 157 Issue 2, p161, 11p, 2 charts, 10 maps


French, Cajun, Creole, Houma : a primer on francophone Louisiana / Carl A. Brasseaux.


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



Sexton, Rocky. 1999. Cajun Mardi Gras: Cultural Objectification and Symbolic Appropriation in a French Tradition. Ethnology 38(4): 297 -313

Evangeline Parish French Creole Heritage

That's it for me. It's been real. I used to talk about this subject on forums and with people and several found it annoying. Evangel...