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ext_3190 ([identity profile] primroseburrows.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] primroseburrows 2010-05-25 09:21 pm (UTC)

Does that make Acadians/Cajuns like me a native culture or an invading conqueror? Just curious.

Big Oil is the invading conqueror. I never saw Acadians as an invading conqueror. They were banished from their homeland and settled in a new one. I don't know the whole history (I'm working on it), but it seems like there was more adapting and intermarriage than conquering going on.

Oh, and a book rec: The Acadians: In Search of a Homeland by James Laxer. I've been in the process of reading it for a while now (this is what happens when one has umpteen books going at once), and so far it's excellent.

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