When she asks what an Acadian is, Aucoin unspools the sprawling tale of the French who immigrated to northeastern America to a land called Acadia. In the 1600s, Acadia encompassed the areas of ...

The first victims of the move to drive out the French were not even in Canada – but a peaceful population of Acadians in Nova Scotia who refused to swear an oath to the English King. In the late ...

Now, Guerette is telling that story in his own way.

On this archipelago in the middle of the massive Gulf of St. Lawrence, Madelinots speak their own singsong version of Acadian French. Catherine Chevrier-Turbide says the remote islands ...

It also looks at the battles to keep the Cajun culture alive and efforts to preserve the French language in Louisiana. Against the Tide: The Story of the Acadian People is available to stream on ...