This book is the first to examine comprehensively the demographic
growth, cultural evolution, and political involvement of
Louisiana's large Acadian community between the time of the
Louisiana Purchase (1803), when the transplanted culture began to
take on a decidedly Louisiana character, and 1877, the end of
Reconstruction in Louisiana, when traditional distinctions between
Acadians and neighboring groups had ceased to be valid.
Serving as a model for ethnohistories of other nonliterate peoples,
"Acadian to Cajun" reveals how authentic cultural history can be
derived from alternative historical resources when primary
materials such as newspapers, correspondence, and diaries are not
available. Here, Carl A. Brasseaux assembles a composite picture of
this large Cajun community. From civil records, federal census
reports, ecclesiastical registers, legislative acts, and electoral
returns, he reveals the astonishing cultural transformation of the
Acadians of Nova Scotia into the Cajuns of Louisiana.
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