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Cajun |
Creole |
| Acadians from Nova Scotia, Canada | Spanish: child of the colonies |
| By the 1910s, it was deprecatory term. | Used to describe everything unique to South Louisiana, from tomatoes to horses. |
| By the late 1960s, a revival of Cajun culture and pride among European descendants in rural and small towns. | Urban places: New Orleans, New Iberia, St. Martinville described people of French or Spanish parentage born in Louisiana. |
| With the slave trade, those born in the colonies were differentiated from those born in Africa. | |
| Prior to the Civil War, the term Creole was not used much by European descendants. | |
| Creole of Color refers to freed slaves who were influenced by French culture and developed a very different culture -- which includes among other things Zydeco music -- from Cajuns. Incorrectly called Black Cajuns. |
Based on field work by Ingolf Vogeler in March 2003; created on 26 March 2003.