Cajuns And Their Influence On American Culture

Cajuns

Cajuns are an ethnic group mainly living in the U.S. state of Louisiana, consisting in part of the descendants of Acadian exiles—French-speakers from L'Acadie in what are now the Maritimes of Eastern Canada
Louisiana and Texas
1.2 Million Cajuns

Food
Cajun food relied on local ingredients and wild game like duck, rabbit, alligator. Areas close to the water used fish and shellfish like shrimp and crawfish. Because Cajuns were poor they used every part of a butchered animal like a pig. They shared all pieces of the pig with friends and family.

Music
Cajun music has its roots in the French Canadian speaking Catholics. Cajuns use instruments like the fiddle and the accordion to perform their music. Cajun music has become very popular since 2007, when the grammy award for best cajun music was created.

Language
It was created from the mixing of Acadian French and the original French language spoken by French soldiers and settlers in Louisiana before the arrival of the Acadians. The language is made from words of African, Spanish, Native American and English