I love doc crachew? Spelling). The singer

No, no, can't have Cajan culture, music, it's ok to learn English in English languages country. But France is very good foreign country language. Keep teaching France speaking that will make two cultures, maybe more. We needed in USA.

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Notre heritage a ete nie comme d'autre cultures en Amerique .

" You see him there, he ain't no fool/ he's one smart Frenchman, never been to school/if you wanna get around in a Creole town, you stop and let him show ya' your way 'round/ you let the Bon Ton Roulez/ you let the moolie boolie/ don't you be no fooliie/you let the Bon Ton Roulez..... I got a Creole gal, she one fine dish/ but she got brains like the old crawfish /she don't do nothing but raise Cain all day, and when it comes to lovin', then she much okay.....she let the Bon Ton Roulez (repeat chorus).... If you wanna have yourself some real good fun, go down to Louisiana and ya' find ya' one/ you'll find her workin' cane up-and-down the line/ I got a woman and she really fine/ she let the Bon Ton Roulez..... At the church bazaar or the baseball game/ at the fait do-do, well it's all the same/ if you want to have fun, you got to go/ out to the country to the zydeco..... they let the Bon Ton Roulez/ they let the moolie boolie/ don't you be no foolly foolly / you let the Bon Ton Roulez......" Professor Longhair (David Lindley plays a great version)

"He's got fishing lines hangin' in the Louisiana river/ gotta catch a big fish for us to eat/ settin' traps in the swamp, catches anything he can/ gotta make a livin', he's a Louisiana Man/ gotta make a livin', he's a Louisiana Man...." Doug Kershaw, if I remember correctly; I am mostly familiar with Dave Edmund's excellent version of the song.

I'm Italian and German and from Maryland. However, I lived in Texas for 15 years. Been to Louisiana several times. I truly love the Cajun accent and way of life. I'd love to live in South Louisiana.

Yes no, cannot let our cultures go to be replaced what we see today, no way. Fight for your heritage and let's separate our lands from the states and Canada and escape the insanity.

That's terrible! I'm Scottish but I now live live in England and have had people poke fun! But take it from me, we're stubborn folk and in the end they grew tired before I did! I'm Scottish and proud and no one will take that from me and neither should anyone take away who you are! Oh and I love your music

I can’t go there and not learn it.

Fuck French. No place in America same as Spanish. Learn English or get out!!!!!!

As a latina I would love to marry into this Cajun culture and raise the kids in it 😅

I'm still alive we went from their to marsh Island. I'm 45

My grandmother was a fontenot...grandfather landreneau from ville platte...i spent a lot of time there...my mother spoke ..she said though other white people would look down on them for speaking cajun as the first language...she had to learn english...and we never learned most likely for the same reason....She said it was tough in school....cajuns werent treated the same as other folks...I didnt learn the language even growing up their...but the culture i did and still teach my children...how to cook cajun food is a tradition i wont let die....the only one of my cousins speaks but hes the only one of our generation....Please learn it and pass it on....

The same thing happened in Kenya when Abasuba were told to speak Dholuo for them to be recognized.

I lived in a predominately Mexican town in California for about year. The kids spoke Spanish on the playground and English in class. Being bilingual is a great advantage for so many reasons. Can't imagine being cold enough to tell a bunch of little kids to forget their native language for good.

A similar situation for us Quebec French that immigrated to New England.

Being Cajun born and bred , family on one side German, now the largest cane farmers in the country and French on the other going back to the 1600 1700 St Martinville, New Iberia, Opelousas and surrounding area...Cajun Country USA St Martin Parish,,, I can confirm much of what this documentary points out. At 65 now, I witnessed much of these changes in my life time, also remember my father's story's of both being punished for speaking French Cajun French and I followed him into his work in the oil and gas industry, Lafayette LA The Oil and Gas Capitol. Oil Center as it is called... , My take away is history and the knowledge and appreciation of one's history and culture isn't just a Cajun thing it is an American thing... History and culture are very low on the interest scale in 2022... Few seem to have any interest in these subjects at all... Sad but true... I have more stories in my head then anyone I have ever met... that are a direct result of being a Cajun who grew up in Cajun Country....

I love to hear my Cajun Family that lives deep in the Bayous talk, they speak half french and slang English. It's the most down to earth sounds and feelings you could feel on a hot summer night around the pond. They are also the most loving and happy people even with our history of Poverty, resistance, and being shunned in society. Two of my Uncles worked on a rig out in the sea also. This Documentary brings back so many memories of my Family's history.

Whyyy??

When was this documentary made? I see it was posted 2016.

I heard the stories about school and when I was young at Mawmaw's all of the Older Women would make quilts with Her and they always spoke Cajun French. Father Daigle came out with a Dictionary and She hid it from Me. They didn't want us to learn so they could talk about anything.. I thought... I still go Home from time to time. Love That State.

Back in 1979 I took a job on an Anchor Handling tug in the North Sea,out of Leith,Gulf Rambler,owned by Gulf Fleet USA.The Captain was Cajun,I was one of the engineers,he called me up to the bridge one evening to read one of his wifes letters to him,he could not read, or read english,however,he could drive that boat.We were working with a Jet Barge,and when the wind got up our job entailed either picking up or laying out the barges anchors,our Captain could do it so fast he would go and help other vessels with their anchors,all done with hand throttles,not computers,we were a big powerful vessel,2 16 cylider EMD,s as main engines,and he would drive that tug better than people drive their cars,a wonderful guy,he worked tugs on the Mississippi before going to the North Sea.

Many of my Grandmas relatives were in WW2

Im from Plaqumines Parish. All what thay say is true is a shame what happend to our people. But this gives us a drive to to keep pushing. 2 keep our culture to stay Alive .

This was not that long ago. My mother didn't have running water. She was ashamed to be Cajun. They didn't teach us French. This show brought back memories of my childhood. Fishing and hunting after school. It was a much happier time for me. But the culture itself has almost been shamed out of existence. I never understood why

Why not speak two languages in schools. It happens all the time. Don't let French go away.

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⚜️[ Ray Breaux ]⚜️ " Thanks for sharing this with your viewers, Mr. Breaux. Greetings from New Iberia. I'm a 62 year old widow lady and happy to learn more about our heritage. My maternal great-grand mother was from Spain and my paternal great-grandmother was from Germany. Breaux is my maiden name. " 🧡⚜️ [ 👍👍 ]⚜️🧡

I remember my grandparents telling me stories of how they weren't allowed to speak French in school. And yes, I also remember the adults speaking in French when they didn't want the kids to know what they were saying. When I took French in high school, I couldn't wait to learn enough to know what they were saying. It didn't take me long to realize that Parisian French and Cajun French were definitely not the same thing. Think of it like this: London English versus Glasgow English. And I literally got chills when I saw the pictures of D-Day. My grandfather was a medic, (held back off shore because he was married with children) when his company stormed the beaches.

The true "Cajun" ethnicity is comprised of French/French Canadian/French-Irish Canadian/Spanish and native American Indian. That mix is the true Roots of a Cajun ethnicity. As the documentary then indicates, after the Civil War, they began to inter-marry with the other European, Asian and African American ethnicities. That mix of inter-married many ethnicities is now what is known today as Creole (meaning many ethnic groups). But the true Cajun ethnicity mix is what is first noted above.

Isn't the terrible. Here in Canada if you don't speak French and English your job opportunities decrease. Imagine the British Empire telling people they can't speak French or any language. That's incredible. We need to have CLM. I love Cajun music et les tous.

Vive la France et vive les français cajuns

Louisiana, you are a treasure to our fair US of A. We love you!

Well that's a darn shame, about the forbidden language, many of the presidents were multilingual, especially the early ones ,Jefferson and Founding Father Ben Franklin who were over to France for political alliances were fluent in French and various other languages. Here's a list of presidents that were multilingual. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_multilingual_presidents_of_the_United_States. This was also the same story with the American Indians who were forbidden to speak their own language.

This thing in the beginning about French, it sounds exactly how "Pacific Creole English" AKA "Pidgin" was treated in Hawaii when I was growing up. We used to be sort of bi-lingual, speaking proper English and Pidgin. Funny old times.

Thank you for this video .....this picture of me was taken in 1998 ... between Berwick and Morgan City on La Pinta Spanish ship ....

Governments have long known that suppressing a language is the quickest way to destroy a culture.Even dialect was suppressed in my school.

Fantastic program (all three parts) - I'd love to be able to buy a copy for myself!

This is not unlike southern Appalachian's (and others in the south)... through the 50's, 60's, and still to this day... you can have a PhD and if you have a strong southern accent you automatically lose 30 IQ points! They have classes you can take to 'lose' your southern accent to help southerner's get away from the stigma... how sad! This is an endearing trait, I wouldn't give up my southern tongue for anything, it's our heritage and a evaporating trait of our American culture.

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This America is dying.

Now the US spends 4billion per year subsidizing the sugar cane industry. This causes the domestic sugar prices to be about 2x as high as world prices.

We all DON'T speak English very well. Its a US thing. Regional. Who s to say. ENJOY THE TIME EE HAVE LEFT.

I can't find a list of speakers in this film. Can anyone help?

The oil guy is lying 90% of the people working in the oil industry in Louisiana was and still is from either Texas or Oklahoma. I know I am Cajun and grew up in south Louisiana in the 60s and 70s. When the oil companies came to Louisiana the only ones that got rich was the oil executives and the people that were rich already (large land barons) the average people were screwed from all directions. They destroyed the land and the water and the animals hundreds of times from neglect and greed. The oil companies even today don't pay a dime in taxes either and never have.

My parents had to kneel on dried corn if they were caught speaking French on school grounds. Pisses me off just thinking about it.

I love the Cajun people so much, some of my best friends have been Cajun. If I had total control of this country, the only languages that could be used in public would be English, any “American Indian” language, and Cajun French. The other languages are used to divide the country.

I always wondered why the Cajuns got so much hate. It’s not like the Arabs who are pretty dangerous and untrustworthy

Virgin French Canadian vs. chad cajun