Cajuns and Their Acadian Ancestors: A Young Reader\'s History traces the four-hundred-year History of this distinct American ethnic group.
Cajuns and Their Acadian Ancestors: A Young Reader\'s History includes numerous images and over a dozen sidebars on topics ranging from Cajun music to Mardi Gras..
In recent decades they have contributed Their exotic cuisine and accordion-and-fiddle dance music to American popular culture.
Since Their arrival in Louisiana, the Cajuns have developed an unmistakable identity and a strong sense of ethnic pride.
There they resettled, intermarried with members of the local population, and evolved into the Cajun people, who today number over a half-million.
Nearly three thousand survivors journeyed through the thirteen American colonies to Spanish-controlled Louisiana.
Up to one-half of the Acadian population died from disease, starvation, exposure, or outright violence in the expulsion.
The narrative follows the Cajuns\' early ancestors, the Acadians, from seventeenth-century France to Nova Scotia, where they flourished until British soldiers expelled them in a tragic event called Le Grand Dérangement (The Great Upheaval)--an episode regarded by many historians as an instance of ethnic cleansing or genocide.
While written in a format comprehensible to junior-high and high-school students, it will prove appealing and informative as well to adult readers seeking a one-volume exploration of these remarkable people and Their predecessors.
Cajuns and Their Acadian Ancestors: A Young Reader\'s History traces the four-hundred-year History of this distinct American ethnic group
