Learn about the Isleños Culture of St. Bernard

Discover Louisiana's Islenos Culture in St. Bernard Parish! Go Coast's host, Tom Gregory, travels to the last vestiges of Spanish Colonial Louisiana at the Los Islenos Festival, where the past is not only celebrated but also made present for visitors to St. Bernard Parish.

[@mariabarreraplasencia1307]

It is very touching to see how they preserved our culture. From a "chicharrera" living abroad!!!!

[@TheGeoScholar]

Isleños also went to Texas, and parts of the Caribbean, such as Cuba and Puerto Rico.

[@bennomedina-quinsella4763]

The town of Quebradillas in Puerto Rico which is also the home of the famous German-descended Pirate Roberto Von Kupferschein (aka Cofresi) is predominantly settled by not only Basques, Mallorcans, Corsicans and Irish but also by boatloads of Canary Islander families...My Great-Grandmother who was born in 1898 was one of 8 sisters and all of whom were referred to in Quebradillas as "Las Islenas"...even to their deaths in the 1980s and 1990s.

[@pilargarcia7920]

Hola isleños me siento tremendamente orgullosa que una parte de mi tierra esté representada en Estados Unidos la gente canaria hemos demostrado a lo largo de nuestra historia que somos gente trabajadora y fieles a nuestra cultura y raíces les agradezco encarecidamente lo que hacen año tras año para conservar el legado de sus antepasados isleños una cordial saludo desde Tenerife y un abrazo grande😄

[@jd42277]

Also went to Venezuela, Santo Domingo,some places of Colombia etc... Much of the caribbean culture comes from Canary Islands

[@juannavel8633]

Im very happy to see those traditions are still preserved, greetings from a isleño from Gran canaria. Its very interesting how they look like todays canary people, in phisical appearance.

[@jaymartin5752]

This brings back fond memories of growing up in Delacrioux and spending time with my grandfather trapping, crabbing, and fishing. I love being Islenos.

[@rosalesefra1211]

Fui a ese festival varias veces cuando vivia en New Orleans LA. Es de lo maximo! El museo es pequeño pero inmediatamente te tranporta a otro tiempo y a otro espacio y sientes por dentro en tu pecho un pinchoncito de nostagia.

[@vglc8768]

Ños, que bueno. Saludos desde Tenerife

[@alfredobecerra2878]

Pride of Spanish Louisiana 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇪🇸 🇪🇸 🇲🇽 🇨🇺 🇵🇷 1763-1801.

[@IslenoGutierrez]

Louisiana isleños 🇺🇸🇮🇨

[@sarsanch]

Los Españoles como las gentes de las Islas Canarias son Españoles practicando la solidaridad y ayuda mutua,en pocas palabras se ayudan unos a otros, muy bonito!!!

[@zm4344]

I wanna go here !!!

[@tomgotv]

You need to!

[@daemon6t6goonie56]

I am a ESTEVES. MY GRANDPA WOULD TELL ME STORY OF WHEN HE WAS A KID THE BAR FIGHT THE FOOD TRAPING . IT GOOD TO SEE A VIDEO OF THIS ON KZbin

[@patatoh71]

Vick Grayson fellow latino

[@newparadigmbeings4127]

Proud to be Spanish from Louisiana! --Aguilar!!

[@neal6473]

Me to.

[@aliffirfan9267]

Well,Canarian islanders are not Spaniard...they're native people of Canary islands,but unfortunately in 15th century Spanish Empire conquered the islands and forced the natives to adopt their culture and language same as they did to Native American

[@newparadigmbeings4127]

@@aliffirfan9267 thank you for the info. My Spanish roots are not just from Canary, but also Iberia, and North Africa.

[@Nich-ib7xv]

@@aliffirfan9267 Plus,the natives of the Canary Islands (the Guanches) were the caucasoid people similar to the Berbers of North Africa

[@jacoboarca8516]

@@aliffirfan9267 mistake, the canary islands were restock with people from the peninsule, after the elimination of the guanches by part of the french and portuguese conquist. The small amount of guanches, the natives from there, exist thanks to Spain, but the majority of canarians are from the peninsule, and Canary Islands are Spain.

[@22lbhammer1]

Just discovered my family.roots from the.canary islands.

[@cristobalgarcia7168]

ME SIENTO MUY ORGULLOSO DE SER CANARIO Y LO QUE APORTAMOS EN TODA AMÉRICA SOBRE TODO EN EL CAMPO Y AGRICULTURA PORQUE NOSOTROS ANTEPASADOS ERAN MUY POBRES Y ANALFABETOS PERO CON UN CORAZÓN CÓMO EL PICÓ TEIDE 👍👍🇮🇨❤

[@carlosayala6754]

Amazing.

[@vglc8768]

Espero poder ahorrar y algún dia visitar este lugar, tiene gofio por ahi?

[@alfredobecerra2878]

🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇪🇸 🇪🇸 🍷

[@neal6473]

Eso es correcto 🇪🇦 😊👍🍷.

[@jeanthornton8085]

Hello my kinfolk's

[@islanders6846]

Hola

[@islanders6846]

live the islanders! of the Canary Islands

[@oswaldoantoniotipantasipin9913]

Es interesante pero a la ves hasta un poco ironico que lo estadounidenses quieren ser hispanos pero sin dejar de hablar el ingles, no digo que esto sea malo ya que es una cuestion cultural, pero lamentablemente en los Estados Unidos la unica cultura que debe ser tolerada es la americana o la europea sajona y no la hispana, se tiene un mal concepto de los hispanoamericanos, y eso es en parte de los esteriotipos que hay acerca de los Hispanos de Estados Unidos. El idioma español es parte de la cultura estadounidense. no hay que olvidar el legado de los españoles de norteamerica

[@canarioyespanol6446]

Hasta hace 30 años atras en esa zona de louisiana tan solo.se hablaba español

[@dustinperez3913]

Viva la islanoes. SI or no SI. I'ma revigerate y'all today and tomorrow fuck yesterday. Lalala. We back. You either with it or you against us. Us@!!! All day every day. Originaly of originals. My dream is me , my family, my girls and my bros together on an island. Forever forever. SI. Frack everything else. Thats what it means to be islanoes. Frack the world as it is we gonna live forever on our island.

[@IslenoGutierrez]

It’s spelled isleño. Isleños is plural, isleño is singular. I’m an isleño. We are isleños.

[@jd42277]

You are showing meals and somethings of Spanish culture but the Canary culture it's not the same, thats meals not are from Canary islands and not are typical of the isleños. Canary islands belong to Spain but not are the same. I wouldn't like they replace their canary traditions for spanish traditions.

[@IslenoGutierrez]

JD We have Canarian foods too. Our most famous soup we call caldo (caldo Isleño) that we eat in our homes is from the Canary Islands and is called puchero Canario there. The vast majority of us are Canarian, but a couple of the cooks at our yearly fiesta were from the peninsula of Spain and they cooked Iberian foods at the festival too, so that's what you are seeing. We don't eat those Iberian foods in our homes, that's just at our fiesta from a few Iberians that work there (at the fiesta there are both Canarian foods and Iberian foods, as well as Canarian honey rum, also Louisiana food too)

[@jaymartin5752]

It's called assimulation. The culture was formed by the available sources of foods during that time and continued to evolve into what it is today.

[@jacoboarca8516]

My friend, Spain is a country with a lot of things, galician,asturian,... all of that is spanish. Remind you, that the Canarys were restock with people from the peninsule...

[@daviddiaz-ohyeah]

Complete true, we dont have spanish culture.

[@goodaimshield1115]

@@daviddiaz-ohyeah David Diaz does not have Spanish culture XD

[@patatoh71]

Latino pride worldwide

[@stag3coach521]

Spanish aren't latinos. Spanish are european.

[@bennomedina-quinsella4763]

stop with your American brain-wash "Latino" shit...they would LAUGH in your face if you insulted them with that stupid identity con-job label...

[@julioferreira9677]

Los españoles somos latinos, a ver, déjame pensar..... ¡Desde el siglo II antes de Cristo! Cosas de los romanos y su lengua, el latín. Actualmente, los únicos latinos verdaderos son los habitantes de El Lacio. Y los canarios somos euroafrolatinos.

[@neal6473]

I'm Spanish Creole Pride.

[@neal6473]

@@stag3coach521 And Spanish is also the Latin culture as well.

[@johnd9918]

I am surprised I don't see no taco trucks there is a lot of them in California I Miss Louisiana

[@9thGenerationCajun]

Imagine in 200 years today's with kid's singing Bhad Baby "Catch me outside " girl SMFH.. the future looks horrible!

[@patatoh71]

Ayy lmao they have chorizo

[@combattenerife8980]

canary island is not spain! FREE CANARY ISLAND

[@diegich3733]

Canary Island is the spear head of Castile/ Spain in the New World!

[@daviddiaz-ohyeah]

Spain is a fucking shit, our worst nightmare. 💩🇪🇸💩🇪🇸

[@canarioyespanol6446]

Y tu eres tonto

[@ghrtfhfgdfnfg]

Jajajaja