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Atkinson was born on November 9, 1938 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, into a prominent Cajun Republican family. [3] Her father, Francis Decker Atkinson, was a chemical engineer for Standard Oil, and her mother, Thelma Atkinson, was a homemaker. [4] [5] Named after her grandmother, Grace, the "Ti" is Cajun French for petite, meaning "little".
Louisiana Creole is a French-based creole language spoken by fewer than 10,000 people, mostly in the U.S. state of Louisiana. [4] Also known as Kouri-Vini, [1] it is spoken today by people who may racially identify as white, black, mixed, and Native American, as well as Cajun and Creole.
Louisiana French (LF) is the regional variety of the French language spoken throughout contemporary Louisiana by individuals who today identify ethno-racially as Creole, Cajun, or French, as well as some who identify as Spanish (particularly in New Iberia and Baton Rouge, where the Creole people are a mix of French and Spanish and speak the ...
Grandma's Cajun Chicken & Spaghetti. I’m originally from Louisiana, where my grandma spoke Cajun French as she taught me her spicy chicken spaghetti, lovingly made on an old woodstove. —Brenda ...
Dictionary of Louisiana French: As spoken in Cajun, Creole and American Indian communities. University Press of Mississippi. Cajun French Dictionary and Phrasebook by Clint Bruce and Jennifer Gipson ISBN 0-7818-0915-0. Hippocrene Books Inc. Tonnerre mes chiens! A glossary of Louisiana French figures of speech by Amanda LaFleur ISBN 0-9670838-9 ...
Inez Catalon was born in Maurice, Louisiana [2] and grew up in nearby Kaplan, Louisiana, the youngest of ten children with German, Spanish, French and African ancestry. [7] Her great-grandmother was an enslaved person. [8] The family lived in a house in Kaplan built by her father in the 1920s. Her father was a farmer who died when Catalon was a ...
Historical records state that Marie Catherine Laveau was born a free woman of color in New Orleans 's French Quarter, Louisiana, on Thursday, September 10, 1801.At the time of her birth, Louisiana was still administered by Spanish colonial officials, although by treaty the territory had been restored to the French First Republic a year prior. [1]
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