My Great Uncle Ervin Cavalier has passed on to his new life with his today this evening.....love you and will miss you and daddy talking Nonk.......FLY HIGH ON THE EAGLE
I’m sorry for y’all’s loss. 😢 He reminds me of my grandpa. He was an old French-speaking trawler from Bayou Lafourche. I’m grateful to have a video of him speaking French here on RUclips. I’m sure your family cherishes this video of your Nonc Ervin. I know the videos of my grandparents and great-uncle that we have are my family’s greatest treasure. 😊
Your Cavalier family arrived to Louisiana from the town of Agüimes on the island of Grand Canaria in the Canary Islands of Spain. The surname Cavalier was originally Caballero and was changed often said as Cavallero and was changed to Cavalier by one of your ancestors to sound French, probably to assimilate better in French speaking Louisiana. Canary Islanders are known as isleños in Louisiana.
@IslenoGutierrez you are absolutely correct. Our ancestors were also called Caveros at one point. May I ask how you figured all this out. I did an ancestry tree when I was a senior in high school.
This Man absolutely has an education. His didn't come from a conventional class room. I've worked with several old timers like him in the construction field. Fine with the tape measure, great hands or Foremen on the job. A K-12 education might not have changed him one bit besides being literate. At least that's the way I felt about guys like him I've known. Men of moral character with great work ethics and personality. Just not literate usually not entirely their fault.
I spent most of my life in them same waters. There used to be plenty of people like him. They are getting few and far between now. We made a lot of money during the summer months trapping, crabbing, frogging and crawfish as teenagers. during the spring you can travel the old logging canals deep into the swamp when the bromeliads are in bloom. Very beautiful.
Mr. Erv was an incredible man and a pleasure to know. He was smart, kind and generous. He was always willing to help with whatever you needed. I had not seen him in a while and was sad to hear that one of the last true cajuns had gone to his reward. We could all learn something about life & success from Mr. Erv. May he rest in the well deserved peace in heaven.
Whitney and Kim it was great meeting you two! I loved that Dr.Nick talked about laughter, being that my dad is always trying to make people laugh! Yall did a wonderful job!!! Thanks for sharing my Dad's (Ervin Cavalier) story! 💕
@@gennycavalier3667 im from Texas.. and always been going to Louisiana back and forth ... and its so interesting to see Cajun in deep Louisiana speaking there native Tongue.. y’all r very unique people 😉
I think the title isn't good because there are ALOT of "true cajuns" that are under 30. This idea that we are dying is a myth even perpetuated by our parents. Cajuns are here and were not going anywhere. This includes our own dialect of french as well. Je parle ma langue et vis ma langue, il y a beaucoup comme moi.
Well true Cajuns (Louisiana Acadians) don’t exist anymore. The Acadians after their arrival intermarried with the peoples of Louisiana. Today’s Cajuns are a mixed origin group whose ancestors come from various French speaking places such as France, Acadia, Québec, the French Caribbean (white), French Switzerland, Belgium and even for some, non-French speaking places like Spain, Germany, Britain/Ireland and/or Italy. There are currently more non-Acadian surnames among Cajuns today than Acadian ones. There’s the saying: “there’s 3 ways to be Cajun: by the blood, by the ring or by the back door”. This is a testament to the mixed origins of Cajuns today. Before the term Cajun was adopted en masse in the 1960’s-1970’s, Cajuns were called Creoles.
Whitney Vann, You are so sweet up and Dr. Nic brought me smiles and delights beyond belief. Mr. Joe Cavalier is an awesome man I have met him and I was so impressed.
This is one of my best videos, I have heard and read, here and there about the Cajun but I never knew much about them till now, this is both anthropology and sociology lesson unfolding before my eyes this is very informative and educative. Thank you again Whitney.
My Dad was born 27 September, 1927 in Grande Prairie, LA. One month later, he was reared at the present day corner of LA 29 & Interstate 49. @ 2 miles West of that intersection was the the Big Ridge locally known as Grand Coteou, and not just Grand Coteau, LA because the Ridge parallels the western side of the Atchafalaya Basin! and runs North to Illinois and East to Kentucky!
@@coreyguillot2760Your Guillot family arrived to Louisiana from Rhône, France in the French Alps. Their Louisiana born family were called French Creoles.
1937: 10 year old boy works 3 jobs in the Louisiana heat. 2024: 28 year old man making $100,000 per year complains about his lack of work-life balance if he has to get out of his pajamas and come work in an air conditioned office a couple times a week.
Ain't that the BEST laughter when you find someone troubles or hindering areas that when it happens especially with them really feeling emotional and animated I can't stop then spit farts snot and a point when you just don't gaf 😂
c'est pas cette homme ils n'aimons pas, mais nous détestons beaucoup les methods Américains qui notre civilisation Acadiene a effacè. ils ont reductè nous à des un peu qems que peux turn us into people they can manipulate. Acadiens wanted their own culture, language, and independence after the civil war. to prevent that the Acadiens were divided racially. Plenty of true cajuns live, and range from poor and uneducated like this brother to PHDs and well off, but this propaganda wants to define us ONLY by poverty and the swamp rather than the philosophy of generosity and simple living that made all Acadiens equal. Viva Acadia.
Last of the true Cajuns?.. I didn't know my heritage was a contest to see who can do it good enough. My dad grew up on a houseboat too. 12 kids with my Mawmaw stuffing crabs at a crab canner on the water.. But even for cajuns, things change. I grew up in Stevensville off lake Varette not far from there. The only thing I have against the video is that you got to be uneducated or cannot read or write to be a true Cajun? I mean ...what exactly are you trying to say?
True Cajuns (Acadians) don’t exist in Louisiana anymore since about the mid 19th century. When the Acadians arrived, they didn’t stay isolated. They intermarried with the original French speaking white settlers of Louisiana called French Creoles, who were a people of a mixed European type ancestry between ancestry from France and ancestry from Québec. This group also absorbed a little ancestry from 19th century French immigrants and white French Caribbeans from St. Domingue (colonial Haiti) and some even absorbed some German or Spanish ancestry. This very mixed white group is the group today identifying as Cajuns, but are not Cajuns. There are actually more non-Acadian surnames among Cajuns than there are Acadian (Cajun) surnames. No one so invested in the Cajun identity wants to hear this, but the truth is not always pleasant.
Nothing about or in the French language or francophone history in context? Just a Cajun guy who doesn't know how to read or write. If it's not racist it's xenophobic.
@@DustinRomeroYour surname Romero arrived in Louisiana from the city of Málaga in Andalusia, Spain. The Louisiana born children of the first Romeros in Louisiana were Spanish Creoles and are known in Louisiana as “Malagueños”.
@@IslenoGutierrez I hope people will realize the truth about the so-called Cajun identity and instead, embrace the term Creole again as an identity. Most people nowadays think Creole are exclusively of African or Mixed Race descent.
My Great Uncle Ervin Cavalier has passed on to his new life with his today this evening.....love you and will miss you and daddy talking Nonk.......FLY HIGH ON THE EAGLE
I’m sorry for y’all’s loss. 😢 He reminds me of my grandpa. He was an old French-speaking trawler from Bayou Lafourche. I’m grateful to have a video of him speaking French here on RUclips. I’m sure your family cherishes this video of your Nonc Ervin. I know the videos of my grandparents and great-uncle that we have are my family’s greatest treasure. 😊
My condolences to you and your family.
So sad 😢
Your Cavalier family arrived to Louisiana from the town of Agüimes on the island of Grand Canaria in the Canary Islands of Spain. The surname Cavalier was originally Caballero and was changed often said as Cavallero and was changed to Cavalier by one of your ancestors to sound French, probably to assimilate better in French speaking Louisiana. Canary Islanders are known as isleños in Louisiana.
@IslenoGutierrez you are absolutely correct. Our ancestors were also called Caveros at one point. May I ask how you figured all this out. I did an ancestry tree when I was a senior in high school.
Warm story. This gentleman found success and happiness of his own making. Got to respect that !!!
This Man absolutely has an education. His didn't come from a conventional class room. I've worked with several old timers like him in the construction field. Fine with the tape measure, great hands or Foremen on the job. A K-12 education might not have changed him one bit besides being literate. At least that's the way I felt about guys like him I've known. Men of moral character with great work ethics and personality. Just not literate usually not entirely their fault.
I spent most of my life in them same waters. There used to be plenty of people like him. They are getting few and far between now. We made a lot of money during the summer months trapping, crabbing, frogging and crawfish as teenagers. during the spring you can travel the old logging canals deep into the swamp when the bromeliads are in bloom. Very beautiful.
Can't help smiling when I hear Ervin speak🙂
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Mr. Erv was an incredible man and a pleasure to know. He was smart, kind and generous. He was always willing to help with whatever you needed. I had not seen him in a while and was sad to hear that one of the last true cajuns had gone to his reward. We could all learn something about life & success from Mr. Erv. May he rest in the well deserved peace in heaven.
I am 24 years old, from South Louisiana. Idc what anyone says, Cajun Life is very much still alive in us! It’s not going anywhere!!
Do you speak French?
Whitney and Kim it was great meeting you two! I loved that Dr.Nick talked about laughter, being that my dad is always trying to make people laugh! Yall did a wonderful job!!! Thanks for sharing my Dad's (Ervin Cavalier) story! 💕
R u his daughter?
@@garrettgermany3155 Yes
@@gennycavalier3667 im from Texas.. and always been going to Louisiana back and forth ... and its so interesting to see Cajun in deep Louisiana speaking there native Tongue.. y’all r very unique people 😉
I think the title isn't good because there are ALOT of "true cajuns" that are under 30. This idea that we are dying is a myth even perpetuated by our parents.
Cajuns are here and were not going anywhere.
This includes our own dialect of french as well.
Je parle ma langue et vis ma langue, il y a beaucoup comme moi.
Well true Cajuns (Louisiana Acadians) don’t exist anymore. The Acadians after their arrival intermarried with the peoples of Louisiana. Today’s Cajuns are a mixed origin group whose ancestors come from various French speaking places such as France, Acadia, Québec, the French Caribbean (white), French Switzerland, Belgium and even for some, non-French speaking places like Spain, Germany, Britain/Ireland and/or Italy.
There are currently more non-Acadian surnames among Cajuns today than Acadian ones. There’s the saying: “there’s 3 ways to be Cajun: by the blood, by the ring or by the back door”. This is a testament to the mixed origins of Cajuns today. Before the term Cajun was adopted en masse in the 1960’s-1970’s, Cajuns were called Creoles.
Whitney Vann, You are so sweet up and Dr. Nic brought me smiles and delights beyond belief.
Mr. Joe Cavalier is an awesome man I have met him and I was so impressed.
This is one of my best videos, I have heard and read, here and there about the Cajun but I never knew much about them till now, this is both anthropology and sociology lesson unfolding before my eyes this is very informative and educative.
Thank you again Whitney.
Adaora Madike My pleasure. Thanks for watching & Im delighted you enjoyed it!
Adaora Madike I’m delighted you enjoyed a look into the life of a Cajun who made the very best out of himself and life.
Wonderful interview, thank you Whitney! I find the Cajun accent so beautiful.
Good one Whitney and Kim..thoroughly enjoyed these stories.
Jo Ann B Thank you so much! Thrilled you enjoyed it!
rhetorical question; if he never learned to read or write, how did he know figures; how many logs, what time he fished until?
My Dad was born 27 September, 1927 in Grande Prairie, LA. One month later, he was reared at the present day corner of LA 29 & Interstate 49. @ 2 miles West of that intersection was the the Big Ridge locally known as Grand Coteou, and not just Grand Coteau, LA because the Ridge parallels the western side of the Atchafalaya Basin! and runs North to Illinois and East to Kentucky!
He’s not da last true Cajun we have many more 😊
You identify as Cajun? Your last name Meyers is found among two family lines in south Louisiana, one is German and the other is Dutch.
Avoyelles parish, that's where my relatives are from. lovely people. The accent is so calming to me. Great video.
Avoyelles is .my home for 64 yes 👍
I'm from avoyelles too
@@coreyguillot2760 North South East r west ?
@@coreyguillot2760Your Guillot family arrived to Louisiana from Rhône, France in the French Alps. Their Louisiana born family were called French Creoles.
@@timmynormand4818Your Normand family arrived to Louisiana from Québec. Their Louisiana born family were called French Creoles.
Seeing these swamps makes me homesick… for Colorado.
If you a real Cajun, like myself from Bayou Lafourche, you know he is full of it.
Where are you from in the Bayou Lafourche area? I have Guidry as one of my family last names and it’s from Larose, down the Bayou in Lafourche.
@@IslenoGutierrez Galliano, most of my relatives down here from the Hebert side, my Dad was from the Raceland area.
@@joeyguidry1231 oh, ok. Well you never know we could be related somewhere down the line 😉
@@joeyguidry1231 I have some family from Raceland too, last name Blanchard
Slightly confused here.....care to explain how "he is full of it"?
This is the part of my country i love.
1937: 10 year old boy works 3 jobs in the Louisiana heat. 2024: 28 year old man making $100,000 per year complains about his lack of work-life balance if he has to get out of his pajamas and come work in an air conditioned office a couple times a week.
Ain't that the BEST laughter when you find someone troubles or hindering areas that when it happens especially with them really feeling emotional and animated I can't stop then spit farts snot and a point when you just don't gaf 😂
Why is anyone disliking this😠
c'est pas cette homme ils n'aimons pas, mais nous détestons beaucoup les methods Américains qui notre civilisation Acadiene a effacè. ils ont reductè nous à des un peu qems que peux turn us into people they can manipulate. Acadiens wanted their own culture, language, and independence after the civil war. to prevent that the Acadiens were divided racially. Plenty of true cajuns live, and range from poor and uneducated like this brother to PHDs and well off, but this propaganda wants to define us ONLY by poverty and the swamp rather than the philosophy of generosity and simple living that made all Acadiens equal. Viva Acadia.
My grandmother picked and sold moss.
Know dam well dey fished and hunt every morning boating to from school 😆 bet all my gear
Thank you Whitney. The laugh guy is a little…well VERY cringy. Other than that it’s incredible.
Is that a panther at 3:26?
7:54 Ida whipped them neighbors behind to especially mega million yo!
He is not the last true Cajun I'm full Cajun mother and father side
What is your last name and your mother’s maiden name?
@@IslenoGutierrez Guidry and mother family name is bourgeois
@@dirtycajun1987 Where is your Guidry family from? One of my family last names is Guidry from Larose in the Bayou Lafourche area
@@IslenoGutierrezI'm from the bayou back of Choctaw
Last of the true Cajuns?.. I didn't know my heritage was a contest to see who can do it good enough. My dad grew up on a houseboat too. 12 kids with my Mawmaw stuffing crabs at a crab canner on the water.. But even for cajuns, things change. I grew up in Stevensville off lake Varette not far from there. The only thing I have against the video is that you got to be uneducated or cannot read or write to be a true Cajun? I mean ...what exactly are you trying to say?
Oh s***, he lives over there by the bridge you just take a right at that bridge you go to my buddy James's house.
True Cajuns (Acadians) don’t exist in Louisiana anymore since about the mid 19th century. When the Acadians arrived, they didn’t stay isolated. They intermarried with the original French speaking white settlers of Louisiana called French Creoles, who were a people of a mixed European type ancestry between ancestry from France and ancestry from Québec. This group also absorbed a little ancestry from 19th century French immigrants and white French Caribbeans from St. Domingue (colonial Haiti) and some even absorbed some German or Spanish ancestry. This very mixed white group is the group today identifying as Cajuns, but are not Cajuns. There are actually more non-Acadian surnames among Cajuns than there are Acadian (Cajun) surnames. No one so invested in the Cajun identity wants to hear this, but the truth is not always pleasant.
Vive les Cajuns
Dommage que cette culture disparaisse.
@billkeyz is Cajun aaaaaeeeeeee
He does sounds similar to some French Canadian speaking English.
1:30 look close at the tree
BORN - WEEKS ISLAND
2:39 re sd tree at top
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First Whitney is a Hostess not a host
Nothing about or in the French language or francophone history in context? Just a Cajun guy who doesn't know how to read or write. If it's not racist it's xenophobic.
Les Américains volè ça. Tout la civilisation et langue et la philosophie Acadiane sont tombè à l'histoire.
@@DustinRomero you think one day them people are going to figure it out or is it that we don't give a f*** if they do or not??
@@DustinRomeroYour surname Romero arrived in Louisiana from the city of Málaga in Andalusia, Spain. The Louisiana born children of the first Romeros in Louisiana were Spanish Creoles and are known in Louisiana as “Malagueños”.
@@IslenoGutierrez I hope people will realize the truth about the so-called Cajun identity and instead, embrace the term Creole again as an identity. Most people nowadays think Creole are exclusively of African or Mixed Race descent.
@@DustinRomero Says you who don't even have an Acadian surname but from Spain.