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To: Grizzled Bear
Canjuns were, for the most part, here LONG before just about anybody but the Indians and my own ancestors.

The first settlement site in Acadia (Bar Harbor) dates from 1598. That's the same year Santa Fe was settled. Jamestown comes a decade later, and New York and New England over two decades later. New Sweden is 1638, and so on.

The Cajuns date from 1598 ~ although the formal establishment of the colony had to be restarted in 1628 by Madame Guercherville (there were some bad winters in between, a minor war with an Englishman with a Spanish surname ~ same's as a later Governor of San Francisco mission.

So what is it you think the Cajuns should do? I'm very curious (BTW, I've spent a lot of time studying Spanish, French and Latin, lesser time with Ladino, and a fair amount of time with Old West Gothic. Those are the languages you need to study documents left behind by the original European settlers in America. English and German come a bit later!

27 posted on 07/27/2011 7:47:00 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

Jeesh! Lighten up, Francis! It was a joke!

My first duty station was in Louisiana and I’ve found that Cajuns are some really cool people. You’ve got to admit, what they speak isn’t quite English!


29 posted on 07/27/2011 7:49:44 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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