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Curious that. The English did force the French population out of there and down the Mississippi to become Cajuns. And the children of the native Abenaki popul
by tejtm 1y ago
Curious that.
The English did force the French population out of there and down the Mississippi to become Cajuns.
And the children of the native Abenaki population were sent to English Schools.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_the_Acadians
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_school_system
- margalabargala 1y agoWell sure. Lots of shitty things were done that caused the current state of affairs to come into being. I was just describing the present day, not defending whatbwas done to create it.
- soperj 1y agoAcadians were in Nova Scotia. There were already a bunch of French in New Orleans/Louisiana. Hence "Louis"iana, new "Orleans", "De-troit" etc. It was all new France. And the residential schools happened well after the formation of Canada, and a lot of happened at the behest of the Catholic Church (ie: French Canadians). see Vital Grandin.