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Some Acadians also have Indigenous ancestry, and assimilation over time has diversified their ethnic roots. [1] Acadian history was shaped by six colonial wars during the 17th and 18th centuries, culminating in the French and Indian War. This conflict led to the British Expulsion of the Acadians, forcing many into hiding or exile.
The first recorded and sustained contact with Europeans occurred by chance when British explorer James Cook sighted the islands in January 1778 during his third voyage of exploration. Aided by European military technology, Kamehameha I conquered and unified the islands for the first time, establishing the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1795. [3]
In 1670, the new governor of Acadia, the chevalier Hubert d'Andigny, chevalier de Grandfontaine, was responsible for the first census undertaken in Acadia. The results did not include those Acadians living with local First Nations. It revealed that there were approximately sixty Acadian families with approximately 300 inhabitants in total.
In 1859, the French author François-Edme Rameau de Saint-Père published La France aux colonies: Acadiens et Canadiens, the first of its two parts focusing on the history of the Acadians. Through this work, the Acadians discover the story of their people in their language. [1] Rameau remained deeply interested in the Acadians until his death.
Acadians in the diaspora have adopted other symbols. The flag of Acadians in Louisiana, known as Cajuns, was designed by Thomas J. Arceneaux of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. In 1974 it was adopted by the Louisiana legislature as the official emblem of the Acadiana region.
Though many Americans think of a vacation in a tropical paradise when imagining Hawaii, how the 50th state came to be a part of the U.S. is actually a much darker story, generations in the making.
Between 1820 and 1845 American commercial involvement in Hawaii surged and so did the whaling industry. Between the first few ships in 1819 by the 1840s there some 400-500 ships which made semi-annual visits to the islands on their way back to New England Ports for provisions, recreation and labor. [ 19 ]
This commemorative day marks the date in 1755 when the decision was made to deport the Acadians. December 13, Acadian Remembrance Day, commemorates the memory of the 2,000 Acadians who perished in the North Atlantic from hunger, disease, and drowning during the deportation. Individuals commemorate the event by wearing a black star.