Cajun Genocide - The History of the Acadian Expulsion & Starvation
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- Опубликовано: 22 авг 2024
- The Acadians/Cajuns of Louisiana were the victims of the first ethnic cleansing in North America. Today, they are a world wide example of cultural resilience.
Host: Kyle Crosby
Camera: Daniel Sheridan & Ángela Calonder
Editor: Daniel Sheridan
Script Supervisor: Emily Riewestahl
Half of my people were wiped from this planet. No one will ever talk about it because our skin color.
It’s a sad and horrific reality but never stop reminding people!!!
I live in New Brunswick, and some older english people still call French Acadians "white n1gg@z". It happened to me a couple of times around Fredericton, the capital of our province.
My dad's from Nova Scotia and he's Acadian and Miq'maq.
Buddy, the French were engaged in a war of conquest with the British. You know who else died in the war? The British. Just because people died doesn’t mean there was a genocide.
I wish people would stop using the word “genocide” to describe every war-related loss of life. You’re just diluting the meaning of the word.
@@camolive3727That's why Canada put the Ukrainians in concentration camps. They were siding with the Germans.
You need to make a 1 hour long and tell us more history of Louisiana.
Many more videos are coming soon!
I agree with this comment entirely
Great video. Hope you do more@@LouisianaDread
Thank you for the video, I'm a Mainer of Acadian descent, my great grandfather came across the border(legally!) from new brunswick about 100 years ago, I love to see so many folks in Louisiana still keeping the tradition and culture of our ancestors alive and well!
Hebert here.. South Louisiana
I'm from the Deep South and Canada's loss has been our gain. I appreciate the culture and the sense of humor the Cajuns bring but especially the food. WOW. According to dna tests I'm 72% Scottish and Irish. We have a history of being cleared off our land too. Glad we landed in the South with you guys
Amen my friend 🤘⚜️
Surviving Bobby Jindal, LOL! Love it.
One of our toughest battles😂
My ancestors were the Lords, they escaped into Montreal and ended up in North Dakota a few miles from the Canadian border.
That’s some fascinating history my friend!
I remember learning about this dark part of our history in Louisiana history class at Golden Meadow Jr high.
Thanks Carlos III. Thanks Kyle Crosby for bringing this to light.
I’m happy you enjoyed the content my friend.
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1:29 I know he's spouting truth about the struggles the Acadians dealt with, but when he said Bobby Jindal it got me 😂🤣💀💀 loved the video!
😂 thanks for the compliment. I had to throw in that curve ball.
@@LouisianaDread it's legit tho, lol
I am Acadian on my dad's side but ashamed that I haven't learned anything about it. I need to start learning. I know that my dad's from Nova Scotia and that we are Acadians and Miq'maq.
It’s through no fault of your own. Our governments prevented people from learning the truth because we would know just how truly different we are than the typical Anglo Saxon majority.
@@LouisianaDread❤
🇨🇦 You just saved & inspired many Canadians!
Merci!
I’d love for you to go a bit more on this topic…blessings😊
I will definitely do more on this subject later. You can also see me talk about it on our TikTok Live streams.
Cadienne par la grâce de Dieu ✝️
Absolument!
This is so fantastic! I had no idea this was the history behind Cajuns!
It’s a long and storied past filled with sorrow and triumph. We couldn’t have possibly covered everything in such a short amount of time, but our hope is that this summary is adequate at relaying the events. Thank you!
Yep. We Cajuns are the ones who lost the French and Indian war.
@@tubeular5754 so? It's my ethnicity I'll call it as we do. My Grandparents did.
I love these videos I’m from Dularge Louisiana and a Hebert and learned that there’s still Hebert’s Trahan’s and much more well known last names up there like ours down here awesome vid
Thanks for the kind words, cousin! Much more cool videos coming soon so be sure to tell ya friends to check us out! Merci!
Mais ya. My mom's family are the Heberts. I did an ancestry dna test and I'm getting links from lots of cousins.
I'm A bear too.
Butte Larose, La.
Yo. Jsuis du nouveau brunswick, dla peninsule acadienne. Bon 15 aout, bonne fete des acadiens. Lache pas les video vieux
Merci beaucoup! Je vais continuer!
Bonne fêtes des Acadians cet'année, cher cousin! J'suis une Comeau de Nouveau Brunswick aussi. Ma parenter vien de la region à l'entour de Dalhousie. 🎉
Thanks for the history lesson,very informative and interesting...
Glad you enjoyed it, mon ami!
I want to know where you get all your cool Louisiana t shirts... I love them.. you're program is one of my fave, I just found it but I love Louisiana history so I'm hooked... thank you for this... I love home... Louisiana...
Most of the tshirts I wear are thrifted or from Dirty Coast. Thank you so much for enjoying the content, and much love to you from us!⚜️
EXCELLENT WORK
Thank you very much!
Mais bien, bon travail chérie. Vous nous rendez tous fiers. ❤
That means the world to me, mon ami! Many thanks to you!
I have traced my family back to Francois m Daigle who came on one of those ships.
Hey cousin! 🤘🏼
Great video.
Thank you very much!
Truth.
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I'm a direct descendent of the families from Acadie.Some were put in prison at St. Charles..Women and children were put on ships .Some scalped by British soldiers even..
Same
It was a genocide. It’s also horrific that it isn’t taught to full extent in American schools.
Women and children were put on ships, along with their husbands and brothers. The British soldiers did not scalp any Acadians. You may be mixing up a bit of the history of the area.
@EdinburghFive the Acadians that were intermarried to the Native American Micmac tribes in the area of Acadiana fought the British and were indeed killed and or scalped. Know your history or become history...
@@LouisianaDread I know 😡 How racist is that? It's not even taught!
@@user-tt1qf5fg8bYeah, my dad's from Nova Scotia and he's Acadian and Miq'maq. We are together in Nova Scotia.
The French Acadians and the French were the first pilgrims European pilgrims in North America.😊
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My grandparents were beaten in school for not speaking English.
Same! A sad reality that doesn’t make the mainstream
I’m not sure why the pot shot at Bobby Jindal but maybe that’s because I had moved from Louisiana for a job during his tenure.
Bobby Jindal did more to dismantle the state than he did positive.
Yeah fuck Bobby Jindal did you see his reply after that state of the union address
I bet you voted for Edwin Edwards
Bobby Jindal tried to use the state of Louisiana as a platform to launch his bid for president. He wasted millions of Louisiana tax dollars with high exposure appearances wherever and whenever he could.
Government and policies are still interfering in the Acadians lives still to this day.
Ever since the tightening of the CANADA-US borders on 9/11, families in Madawaska and Edmundston have been fractured as they can no longer travel freely.
It’s a sad reality that most people are unaware of.
Same happened in Campbellton too. Keep families separated. History repeats itself.
All the fault of a King 👑 from Acadia, to Canada, to US. The Brit’s should know
Never surrender
The Acadians did not refuse to take the oath of allegiance and they were in fact never asked to "fight for the British King". The Acadians over the years provided an oath that gained them neutrality. During a period of rising tensions and war between France and Britain in the New World, the Acadians were asked to provide an unqualified oath that would have negated their neutrality. What the British wanted was for the Acadians not to openly support the invading French. It was highly doubtful the British would have armed the Acadians as the risk was too high they would have turned their arms against the British.
The Expulsion of the Acadians started in 1755 and end in the early 1760s. The Acadians after the end of the Seven Years War were free to return to Nova Scotia or immigrate elsewhere. As we know some of the Acadians in the British Thirteen Colonies decided to move to Louisiana in the mid-1760s and as mentioned the largest group moved from France to Louisiana in the 1780s.
You may want do a little more research about the idea that the deporting of the Acadians was the first ethnic cleansing in North America.
It is regarded as and was ethnic cleansing. It was a genocide. Please do your own research before posting such British apologist history.
@@LouisianaDreadI'll ignore your rudeness. But I must apologize as I did drop a word from my last sentence. I had meant to say it was not the 'first' ethnic cleansing. That one word does make a big difference in the statement.
And by the way, I can assure you, you do not need to worry about my research about the Acadians, as I am pretty sure it far exceeds yours and just about everyone else, I have every seen posting to RUclips.
Note sure I would fall into a "British apologist" category. I am just providing the facts about the deportations. The readers can make up their own minds about what happened. In making up their minds the least people can do is actually understand the history and context of the period. Life and history are complicated.
It is hard to qualify the deportations as genocide as by definition genocide is: 'the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group'. The important words here being 'deliberate killing'. There were no plans to deliberately kill any Acadians. People certainly died but these were not intentional on the part of the Nova Scotia government and New England militias, or the inhabitants of the British North American colonies. The deaths that occurred came about largely due to ships sinking, disease, and deprivation.
Do keep up your work at developing videos about the Acadians as it is an important and interesting story.
@@EdinburghFive If RUclips videos are your source of history, I can assure you that you do not know more about the Acadians than everyone.
There are a few versions of the reasons behind the deportations. It varies from location, I’ve noticed.
@@ThisIsMyRUclipsName1 Good to hear from you.
LOL. Not too sure where you got that idea. I can assure you my sources are clearly not from RUclips videos. If you actually look through most of the videos about the Acadians, you will see I provide constructive criticism of them. That would indicate to most, I am not getting my understanding of the Acadians from RUclips videos
My sources are from primary documents found in archives and libraries in Europe and North America, research papers, and dissertations written by good historians and academics, etc.
There are a number of facts that led to the deportation of the Acadians but there are not credible accepted "versions". The uninformed may have formed a few opinions as to why the Acadians were deported but from what I have heard and read from these sources are for the most part incorrect. The area the Acadians settled covered a very small geographical area and the population was relatively small. They were not such a diverse people that the reasons behind the deportations would have been different for the British.
Cheers
@@EdinburghFive I misread your comment. My apologies. In your reply stating you are sure you know more than anyone, the last sentence in that paragraph confused me. I thought I read (I can’t quote it without it forcing me to delete my reply) something to the fact that you watched every video on it.
It's amazing to see Acadians in the USA....They look the same as all the lobster fishermen in South West Nova Scotia..... Or Julian from Trailer Park Boys.
Trailer Park Boys is an amazing show!
ah yes. Accadia. Port Royal was a fine place.. many fine memories of playing there as a child.
That must’ve been so cool
Which Port Royal did you play at? There are two in Acadia.
@@EdinburghFive the old neighborhood sank beneath the waves some time ago, i hear... we had moved on to greener pastures by then thank goodness.
@@clocksfinle7 Both of the Port Royal neighborhoods are still intact.
That shirt is fire 🔥 Need!
BOBBY JINDAL !! 😅😅😅😅 There's more worst governors than Bobby ! 😅😅😅😅 Ding Dong Bel Edwards ain't much better !😅😅😅😅😂😂😂😂
Bobby Jindal has done more harm than good. There are definitely worse governors but JBE is definitely an upgrade from Jindal. Sorry to disagree, but it’s just my honest opinion.
like abone zanmi yo
I don’t think I’m familiar
>Bobby Jindal
Lmao
YOU RIGHT!
All great points until you brought politics into it. We should be bringing awareness to all. You do the cause a disservice by tainting factual information with personal bias.
There is no speaking of history without speaking of politics. Everything I said in this video brings awareness to all. I speak of things from an unbiased, factual point of view. If you’re not ready or mature enough to accept that, then this isn’t the place for you.
@@LouisianaDread Sure, history and politics go hand in hand, but you are conflating the issue. The Grand Dérangement of 1755 has absolutely nothing to do with 2008 Louisiana politics. To try and intertwine them is disingenuous and clouds the issue. Also, claiming to be unbiased is flat out dishonest. We are all biased. Historical politics is relevant but modern politics distracts from the issue. If you cannot see that then you are correct. There is a level of immaturity at work.