In their cosmogony, the Chitimacha recognize a Creator, Thoumé Kéné Kimté Cacounche or the Great Spirit. In the beginning, he placed the land under water, fish being the first animals. In order to have the land rise above the water,…
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We are celebrating the 250th anniversary of the arrival of the Acadians in Louisiana led by "Beausoleil" Broussard with the Grand Réveil Acadien 2015 this October. Throughout Acadiana and beyond, from Lake Charles to New Orleans, we fête this event…
The carpet was rough against my skin. I slept on the floor because most of my family, half of my neighborhood in Golden Meadow, was crammed into one hotel room in New Orleans. I woke up in the middle of…
The influences that formed Acadiana are multiple. The arrival and establishment of the French, Creoles, Acadians and non-French speaking people, such Africans, Germans, Italians, Irish, Anglo-Americans, and many Native American tribes already there, are often mentioned. A Quebec friend recently…
If it was luck that had Cavelier de la Salle find the mouth of the Mississippi and take possession of the land drained by the river by naming Louisiana after Louis XIV, the Sun King, and that on Mardi Gras…
When James Domengeaux convinced the legislature to form CODOFIL, one of his dreams was that one day a Louisianian would be appointed to one of the forty chairs of the prestigious French Academy along the banks of the Seine River…
Experts agree on a definition of Creole that recognizes, among other things, European origins. As the Acadiana flag shows, it focuses on only two countries: France and Spain. Our status as a former colony of these former empires, along with…
20 Years Already
Next year, we will commemorate the sesquicentennial of the end of the Civil War, or the Confederates’ War as we say in Louisiana French. Between 1865 and 1870, after the terrible mortality associated with the deadliest war in American history,…
When the temperature starts to drop, mosquitoes are becoming scarce and the threat of hurricanes decreases until June, dry air pushed by the north wind fills our lungs and clears our minds so that we can finally enjoy outdoor activities:…
Attached to the left bank of the serpentine meanderings of Bayou Teche, the village of Loreauville lies in Iberia Parish. All around, the rich and fertile soil nourishes the sugar cane fields that stretch to the horizon. Several families, as…
This is a question that seems to have as many answers as people who answer it. A typical endless discussion around a table covered with old newspapers and bushels of crabs can get started with questions such as: “Who was…
“France once had, in North America, a vast empire stretching from Labrador to Florida and from the shores of the Atlantic to the most remote lakes of Upper Canada.” Thus begins Atala by François-René de Chateaubriand, a love story between…
Zachary Richard, Ralph to his close friends, has come a long way since his birth in Scott, where the West begins, the boudin capital of the world. He could have remained his father’s son, playing in bars in the area,…
A little movie shot in the bayous has revived the question of our image as it is projected on the big screen. Beasts of the Southern Wild took the critics by surprise with its young actor Quvenzhané Wallis in the…
It has been repeated so much that it has become a cliché. Worse than a cliché, it has become an accepted reality as certain as the sun rising in the east and the falling of leaves in autumn. Complete the…
Le Gombo
The Original Social Network
Le Jardin des Traiteurs
The Healers Garden
Considered to be the sign of our French identity in North America, the fleur-de-lis stirs up a lot of curiosity on the part of our cousins from the other side of the Atlantic. The French in particular find it funny…
One can say to a certain extent that the modern era of Cajun music was born on April 27, 1928. It was the day Cleoma Breaux and Joe Falcon, husband and wife in life, entered a studio in New Orleans…
