Canadian + injun = Cajun
Duh
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injum being??? injun being what?
Oh yea damn fucked it up, Indian
no I just didn't know cajun ok?
now I know cajun is canada and indian
No, it isn't. It's got nothing to do with "indian".
then what is it?
Again -- third time now---- Nova Scotia (which has never been Québec) was populated by French settlers, at which time it was called "Acadie" (Acadia).. In 1755 the British, having 'won' that territory from France in war, went to those settlers and demanded they swear allegiance to the British crown. The settlers refused. The Brits then did what the British do best --- kicking people out of their homeland, torching the settlers' houses as they left.
(This is all poignantly described in Longfellow's epic poem Evangeline, one of my favorite works ever)
Anyway the expelled French settlers wandered down the eastern North American coast looking for a new place to settle. Stopping here and there (New England, Carolinas) they eventualy settled, most of them, in western/southwestern Louisiana. Their name "Acadians" got slurred into "Cajuns". Say them both aloud, you can hear it.
That's all there is to it. No "Indians" involved.
After having depopulated Nova Scotia, the Brits then resumed doing what they do best --- kicking people out of their homeland --- and sent thousands of Scottish Catholic highlanders to Nova Scotia (hence its name -- "New Scotland"). That's why the population of Nova Scotia today is so thoroughly Scottish. I hear children there speaking Gaelic.
Not all of the Acadians left, and a few came back. There's a lovely town on the northwest coast called Chéticamp, where all the conversation is in French and all the music is Scottish.
More than you wanted to know?
