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Resources

Evangeline Parish has many resources for learning about its' history and culture. The Evangeline Parish Library, http://www.evangeline.lib.la.us/, has many genealogical and historical resources. The La Voix des Prairies contains information and is located through several libraries: http://lapac.library.net/default.htm. Pascal Fuselier's articles are fun to read: http://www.geocities.com/old_time_time/pascalindex.htm.

These are only some resources for learning. There is a lot of information on Evangeline's Creole history yet that is not promoted or emphasized in popular media. View these tourist sites:
http://www.evangelinetourism.com/, http://www.lsue.edu/acadgate/villeplt.htm. There are many references to Acadians yet few references to Fort Toulouse, Mobile, and French Canada. Acadians, of course, did come to the region and I have several ancestors that are Acadian. But the majority came from other French areas.

One of my links is to LSU's program on learning French; it also labels the language as Cajun - "the language of the Acadians." It is as if the other French people who came here never existed or magically lost all their French culture and learned everything from the few Acadians.

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...