Something You Didn't Know About Cajuns (Ilenos, Canary Islands)
It's due for another 'airing', don't you think?
“Adults dressed in skins or grasses sewn together, while the younger people went about naked.”
Luau night at the Honolulu Hilton?
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.
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.