Explore the Acadian Cultural Center in Lafayette, Louisiana, and discover the story of French-speaking settlers who rebuilt ...

A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians From Their American Homeland By John Mack Faragher Norton, 592 pp. $28.95 Whatever most Americans know about the ...

This year’s official poster for Festival des Acadians et Créoles commemorates the arrival of the Acadians to Louisiana. It shows settlers stepping ashore amid blue skies and cypress moss, with little ...

National Film Board of Canada documentary of stories of Acadians (French Canadians from the eastern Maritime provinces). Hundreds of thousands of Acadians emigrated to Louisiana following deportation ...

ALLAGASH, Maine – Cathie Pelletier started writing a historical novel about the expulsion of Acadian refugees in 1998. Now, nearly 30 years later, she has released “Evangeline’s Journey.” The book ...

Note: This story originally ran as part of the 250th anniversary of the Acadians arrival in Louisiana. There’s a real good chance Le Grand Derangement was the first episode of state-sanctioned ethnic ...

The Times-Picayune is marking the tricentennial of New Orleans with its ongoing 300 for 300 project, running through 2018 and highlighting the moments and people that connect and inspire us. Today, ...

It seems, or at least appears to be, that the bulk of the population is on the side of immigrants entering the state illegally. I do believe that some appear to think that the Acadian ancestors came ...