I recently stumbled on a historical mystery while examining the online inventory of the Historic New Orleans Collection .    Going through ...

Eighteenth-century colonists in south Louisiana ’s Attakapas region commonly raised cattle, not only to feed themselves, but to feed the lo...

The history of the Cajuns in the twentieth century often touches on the subject of language — that is, the decline of Cajun French as more ...

In the mid-1990s I interviewed Cajun activist and educator Richard Guidry (d. 2008), who at one time worked for the Council for the Develop...

Many researchers of the Teche region know the name André Massé: He was an early, if not the earliest, European pioneer of the Attakapas Di...

Note: See also my new blog article on this topic, titled  More on That Word "Coonass": A Labor Dispute Trial Documents Its Use in...