Survivors of Le Grand Dérangement, reborn on the bayous.
One of North America's most durable regional cultures — Cajun French, music and foodways alive across Acadiana.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Acadians (Cajuns) — the shape you scrub through changes in 1764 · 1785.
The standard scholarly account of how 18th-century Acadian exiles became the modern Cajun people, covering exactly this colonial-to-modern arc.
By the leading historian of the Louisiana Acadians, it traces the post-Purchase decades when Acadians fused with other groups into Cajuns.
The definitive study of the exact 1765-1803 settlement period under review, mapping who settled the Attakapas, Acadian Coast and Lafourche.
The leading narrative history of the 1755-64 expulsion that created the exiles who reached Louisiana, with casualty estimates.
Places the Louisiana migration in the wider Atlantic-world dispersal, explaining the France-to-Louisiana 1785 wave.
The narrative poem that made Le Grand Derangement and the Acadian diaspora to Louisiana a national story; a small era bend (the poem's exile begins in 1755) for the people's defining classic, honored as such by the Acadians/Cajuns record's span running into the Louisiana resettlement it describes.