Posted on 06/16/2014 6:52:55 PM PDT by blam
Something You Didn't Know About Cajuns (Ilenos, Canary Islands)
It's due for another 'airing', don't you think?
Anything more frequent than 12.1 years is blog pimping in my book:)
Cool. Are their surnames Spanish?
Yes, overdue. Very interesting, thanks.
No joke.
Com’n, start your own web page....
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Very, very interesting read. Thanks for posting the article.
I’m an ol’ dog, but I can still learn new things.
“Adults dressed in skins or grasses sewn together, while the younger people went about naked.”
Luau night at the Honolulu Hilton?
You're correct...by 47 years.
"Many accounts treat the arrival of the Canary Islanders in 1731 as the founding date for San Antonio. However, there was a sizeable community in place when the “Islenos” arrived. The soldiers stationed at the Presidio and the local mestizo population that supported them had been around since 1718 when the first missions were established. The essay focuses on this often overlooked community and its sometimes rocky relationship with the newcomers. In time, the distinctions between soldiers and settlers became less important and the two groups merged through intermarriage."
bttt
Canary Islands ping.
Interesting. I used to eat meals in a boarding house in Madrid with a man from the Canary Islands. This is the first I’ve heard about the connection with Louisiana, though. I appreciated the summary of Canary Islands history. That was a rather odd corner of the world.
I worked for a Cajun near here for years. I don’t know if he was an Arcadian or Canary Islander but he cn best be described as THE PLANT MANAGER FROM HELL!
When he died everyone at the plant hoped his family would bury him here and not back in Louisiana We had no desire to rent a bus to go all the way to Louisiana just to p!$$ on his grave.
The buried him above ground in a swamp graveyard as the ground itself would have revolted at his presence and cast him out.
Judge Leander Perez, an influential Democratic power broker in Louisiana during the mid-twentieth century was descended from the Canary Islanders who came to Louisiana. He belonged to the old Southern right-wing faction of the Democrat Party that no longer exists.
Thanks.
My paternal great grandfather came to Louisiana via the Canary Islands. Originally from Oviedo, Spain the last name is Spanish and common among Mexicans and Central Americans. My grandparents would get angry when people assumed they were Hispanic. SPANISH is one thing HISpanic is another. The are called Las Canarias now but were proud Spaniards who spoke Catalan even in St Bernard parish as fishermen.
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