Louisiana's Lost Treasure: The Islenos

A short documentary on the history of the Islenos of Louisiana.

[@lolylopez4254]

My canary family lives in U.S. since 1962, wonderful video!

[@neal6473]

I'm Spanish Creole Proud mix with Spanish And African American I love my Spanish Creole and African American family in St. Bernard Louisiana that's where I'm from 🇪🇦.

[@ricanredru4760]

I would strongly consider you visiting the Spanish Caribbean and linking up with the local communities on these islands. Especially in Cuba and Puerto Rico. There are a lot of people who with Spanish ancestry who descend from the Canary Islanders and they have left a very large imprint on the local cultures. Even the local Spanish accent and dialects of Puerto Rico and Cuba are very strongly influenced by Canary Islander Spanish.

[@tenerifemitierracanaria4094]

🇮🇨❤️🇺🇸😍🤝😍 desde la isla de Tenerife un saludo hermano💐

[@ScorpioMami415]

I am also Spanish Creole mixed with African-American, Cuban, Mexican, Spanish.

[@j.b.4340]

Mine settled in Valenzuela. In Ascension Parish, as a child, I would ponder why so many Cajuns had Spanish surnames (Diaz, Ruiz, Domingue, Rodriguez, etc), but when I grew up, I discovered that my Cajun grandparents ALSO had an Isleño last name. The old name was Escaño, since altered.

[@Soda3000Pop]

Always remember whom you've come from!

[@IslenoGutierrez]

Cajuns today are not Acadians as everyone is lead to believe. The Acadians when they arrived in Louisiana, mixed with the different white Creole groups (all people born of the Louisiana colony regardless of race were called Creoles). So these white Creole groups included the French Creoles (whites of ancestry direct from France and Québec) as well as Spanish Creoles (whites of Spanish descent either from the Canary Islands or the Málaga area of Andalusia in southern Spain) and German Creoles (whites with ancestry from Germany, Alsace and German Switzerland). That’s why today you have “Cajun” surnames that are direct from France like Mayeux, Fuselier, Vidrine, Cantrelle, Rabalais or Québec surnames like Ardoin, Chauvin, Deshotels, Dufrene, Devillier, Carriere etc. or Spanish surnames like Romero, Gonzales, Hidalgo, Barrios, Blanco, Fernandez, etc or German origin surnames like Toups, Trosclair, Folse, Triché, Tregre, Vicknair, Haydel, Zeringue, Waguespack etc. and those surnames exist among genuine Acadian surnames like Boudreaux, Theriot, Leblanc, Blanchard, Richard, Hebert, Arceneaux, Guidry etc. It’s a big fat lie that the “Cajuns” today are Acadians. “Cajuns” are mixed origin white Louisiana Creoles.

[@albaniapachecocordoba8882]

De Tenerife. Una vez leí como había quedado esa zona, recuerdo leer que habían unos isleños, y nunca pensé que fueran de estas islas nuestras. Un saludo desde Canarias a todos los isleños de Louisiana

[@Soda3000Pop]

They were Canary Island people relocating to Louisiana, but the hurricanes wiped them out ! Katrina especially!

[@antoniosantana6]

Interesante pero entiendo poco el inglés,yo soy de Las Palmas de Gran Canarias,les agradezco esta información y trabajo...Gracias por compartir

[@cristobalgarcia7168]

SALUDOS PARÁ nuestra GENTE ISLEÑOS de USA 👍👍👍❤🇮🇨🇮🇨

[@UniqueThaPoet]

Here in northern New Mexico we still have a lot of Spanish ancestry. We practice lots of old Spanish traditions of the conquistadors and many traditions of our native American ancestors as well. We also speak old Spanish mixed with Mexican and English words. For example we don't say the "s" sound in our Spanish. We turn this sound into "j" sound in Spanish. For example , no se turns into ...no je. Como se llamaba turns into ...como je llamaba... When I was a kid my dad would scary me and my brothers with el Coco. Lol. The boogey man from Don Quixote de la mancha. Saludos a nuestro primos los isleños.....

[@Guillermo153]

Por favor podrias contarme mas de eso? Es muy Interesante!

[@UniqueThaPoet]

@@Guillermo153 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_New_Mexico

[@Guillermo153]

@@UniqueThaPoet descendientes de españoles? He estado buscando sobre New Mexico y parecen Mexicanos xD No hay mucha info

[@UniqueThaPoet]

@@Guillermo153 prueba este en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanos_of_New_Mexico

[@Guillermo153]

@@UniqueThaPoet ahora si jeje

[@adexexplorador6105]

"Setecientos setenta y siete, varias familias canarias dejaron las Islas Canarias para la costa de Cuba, Texas y sur de la Luisiana..."

[@denisebrouillette7751]

Adex Explorador .

[@bennomedina-quinsella4763]

And MANY entire families arrived in Puerto Rico and still trace their families back to the specific islands...

[@aaronserpas8512]

Dude this was awesome I'm an islanos from Delacroix island LA I learnt some new things so thank you for this video Feel free if anyone has any questions for me

[@brandonofviolet]

Late grandmother is a Melerine and my dad and them are all from the Island.

[@tenerifemitierracanaria4094]

🇮🇨❤️🇺🇸😍🤝😍 desde la isla de Tenerife un saludo hermano💐

[@tenerifemitierracanaria4094]

@@brandonofviolet 🇮🇨❤️🇺🇸😍🤝😍 desde la isla de Tenerife un saludo hermano💐

[@mariangelessuarez9978]

Saludos desde Gran Canaria.

[@hearsayhenderson2623]

Marker 24:00 Greed, lawyer's, judge's , calling it legal, when it was unlawful

[@tenerifemitierracanaria4094]

Canarias ❤️ USA 😘👉❤️🇮🇨❤️🇺🇸❤️👈😘

[@j.b.4340]

@46:50 that’s it.

[@weberley5527]

Hi, i am from Canary Islands. I love United States. i wanna go to louisiana one day. maybe i have family there OMG :D

[@miguelencanarias]

Oh boy do we have roaches... maybe not the American kind, but unfortunately they are a fact of life here, on account of the warm weather. On the plus side, we do have efficient pest control companies. I haven't seen one in years at home.

[@miguelencanarias]

Out of curiosity: do Isleños still speak some Spanish, even residual?

[@joshuarobin4143]

The older generations do. My grandmother used to speak Spanish and French alongside English. She just doesn't / hasn't spoken them in years.

[@robertobahamondeandrade]

There are records from around 30 years ago where people spoke Spanish with Canarian accent.

[@themindylynn4927]

We don't speak fluent Spanish. My grandparents spoke "Cajun french" which is a mixture of french and Spanish. If you're a Spanish speaker I'll give you an example. "How are you?" Spanish: como estas Cajun: como ca va (como sa va) French: comment allez-vous (como tal lay voo) I speak English and Spanish. I learned Spanish on my own. My grandparents didn't teach their children Cajun french out of fear of being beaten in school. My grandparents were beaten in school for not speaking English.

[@Guillermo153]

@@themindylynn4927 how terrible! I'm glad that some people speak Spanish there in Louisiana Greetings from Spain

[@IslenoGutierrez]

The Mindy Lynn Where are you from in Louisiana? In St. Bernard Parish elderly Isleños can speak fluent Spanish and there are some middle aged Isleños that can speak enough or know bits and pieces of Spanish and able to form sentences. However, most middle aged and younger Isleños can not speak Spanish. It’s a dying language among Isleños.

[@Alen994]

I wonder how many people from the canary islands end up on lousiana after the tributo de sangre that the spanish empire dictaminated as a solution for the overpopulation that was happening at the moment , if the families back then cannot pay for stay in the islands they would be shipped to america per 100 tons of cargo that passes through the canary islands www.laprovincia.es/canarias/2019/03/29/tributo-sangre-9342524.html

[@marynielsen4394]

I believe El tributode sangre was abolish by the time the Isleños came to LA. It was a common practice to bring group of families to populate the new world, Germans, Swedish, Danish, also did that having nothing to do with el tributo de sangre. Back in 1995 was my first time working in LA and find out in a local newspaper about the Isleños , they were having some sort of festival.

[@drewg7036]

So these were like the white Gullah Geechees

[@patatoh71]

Latinos worldwide!

[@slarvadain188]

Aapo YAX PAKAL they don’t consider themselves Latino at all. I’m from Louisiana. That’s reserved for those of Latin American heritage. Islenos consider themselves simply Spaniards and white.

[@bennomedina-quinsella4763]

NONE of them ever called themselves stupid labels like "Latinos"...that is screwed-up American identity con-job BS...they would laugh in your face if you called them that.

[@FlyingNazgul-wm1dv]

@@bennomedina-quinsella4763 no Latinos are Mediterraneans The French came up with it actually Latin America was Split from Germanic America just as Europe is split identity wise Latin (southern/Mediterranean) Europe and Germanic (northern Europe) Germanic is Anglos, Scandinavians dutch etc Latinos are Italians, Spanish, Portuguese etc Latin America = Portuguese America (Brasil), the non sovereign near dead French America like Quebec, Montreal, and Louisiana and of course the boss Hispanic America

[@papadapa1662]

@macaco860 There's no Latin american blood in the canary Islands, the guanches were mixed with berber and sub saharan african but they had blond and red hair.

[@thomasray3178]

Ha Ha Ha !