Descendants of early 1600s French settlers who were expelled by the British in 1755 – the Acadian diaspora includes Louisiana’s Cajuns, as well as settlers in France and the Caribbean. But many ...

LOREAUVILLE, La. (WAFB) - The small village of Loreauville has become ground zero for the beginning of Acadiana, the area of southwest Louisiana where exiled French Acadians settled and held onto ...

Photo by National Geographic/Justin Mandel From the original indigenous inhabitants, to the French Acadian settlers in the 1700s, to Vietnamese immigrants today, the culture of southern Louisiana ...

Massachussetts Governor William Shirley, whom the Acadians feared would take some of the land for English settlers, considered it just the first blow against Canada. "It is happy for us that we ...

Descendants of early 1600s French settlers who were expelled by the British in 1755 – the Acadian diaspora includes Louisiana’s Cajuns, as well as settlers in France and the Caribbean.