Creole Language | Folks (1985)
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- This segment from the June 9, 1985, episode of the series “Folks” features Rob Hinton’s report on a pilgrimage of black Canadians from Buxton, Canada, to south Louisiana. Hinton reports that the travelers are the descendants of fifteen slaves from Louisiana that were freed and moved to Canada by Reverend William King in 1848. He interviews Edna Jordan Smith, the pilgrimage coordinator, who discusses the ancestors of the Canadians. He also follows the travelers as they retrace Reverend King’s route at the courthouse in Clinton and a church in Jackson and attend a concert in their honor at Southern University in Baton Rouge. He also interviews two of the Canadians, who discuss their experience in Louisiana.
This segment from the June 9, 1985, episode of the series “Folks” features Genevieve Stewart’s report on the Creole language of Louisiana. She interviews three native Creole speakers from Breaux Bridge, Joseph Jones, Joseph Alexander, and Agnes Alexander.
This segment from the June 9, 1985, episode of the series “Folks” features Rob Hinton’s profile of Big Buddy, a youth mentoring program in Baton Rouge. Hinton interviews: James Geiser of the Big Buddy Program; Michelle Chamberlain, a Big Buddy volunteer; and Tomeka McGee, Bertrell Williams, Tshombe Williams, and Gerald Tillotson, four of the little buddy participants.
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I love that they featured two Creoles of dark complexion
Yes, cause most light skinned Creoles in New Orleans think it just light colored that makes them a Creole.
@@monequmhicks Exactly, which is completely false.
@Justinthe Comments because that's what they try to make the darker Creoles believe and it's just like the slave master mentality. My Mother is high yellow creole, her Mother, her Grandfather half white and I'm dark and beautiful, but I'm definitely creole, my daddy is just dark skinned. So who do you believe?
Yeah, Creole isn’t a specific skin tone. It’s an ethnicity, a culture.
I know!!!!!! Love that ! We come in many different colors
I come from a big Louisiana creole family of Vacharie La. I was raised in New Orleans. Great grandparents didn’t pass on the creole language to my mother generation because back then it wasn’t “cool” to be mixed race. They wanted my mama generation to blend in with the monoracial black kids at school. But imma learn it because that’s my heritage and teach my kids. I can’t believe Louisiana creole language is dying.
We are inclined to automatically associate Louisianian Creole with mixed race people, but many if not most were of predominantly African ancestry, just like the other Creoles who populate Antilles. In Louisiana, it seems that the less mixed populations were largely omitted from many of the records, and this may be the source of this misconception.
No disrespect, but Creole is not a racial category, it is ethno-linguistic. Whether mixed or less mixed, Creoles are Creoles. I'm not of your people, but I am Haitian and I can tell you that emphasising mixed vs mostly African ancestry has done a lot of damage to our people and our culture.
In terms of our customs, and this is something that our people both share, there is a very profound "Africanity" that underpins them even though the surface appears to be European in origin. This is very much the situation in many Latin American countries/nations to this day.
Tout moun Kreyòl gen dwa rete Kreyòl. M'espere ke ou pral sere lyen ac kilti zansèt paw' ankò epi ke ou ka finalman kenbe lang paw' tou.
I'm from the Caribbean. My father, maternal grandmother and my mother in law all know/knew Creole. However it is the patois which originated from Martinique. But there are some similar words found in the Louisianan creole. They never taught their children because the language was seen as a backward one which belonged to uneducated people.
You are correct. Thanks for this informative comment. @@MisyeDiVre
Same - my folks are from Vacharie too
@@lenoreoak3541 what’s your last name? 🤔
I wish the state would create a mandate to teach Creole in schools again to keep our history and traditions in tact
You don't need the state. . .public education is almost donezo as it is...
I'm a Texan born and raised. I love the culture of Louisiana and I wish I had it in my roots.
Born in Houston, TX but everybody who hears or reads my last name (Melancon) says I gotta be from Lafayette. Well, my dad is from Carencro. My ancestors are Grangers from Kanajin. Feels like home every time I go to Carencro and I’m hesitant on coming back to Texas. All the old folks know me, but I don’t know them🤷🏾♂️
Melancons are all over Louisiana
Hey cuz grangers are all over Lafayette
I’m from Lafayette and I had a teacher in elementary school name Ms. Melancon.
my bestfriend in high school had the last name Melancon .. i'm from a small country area in Louisiana named Vacherie . Melancon is definitely very Louisiana Creole vibes
@@TeKeyaKrystal
Magnolia?
I was born and raised in New Orleans to parents and several generations born and raised in New Orleans. When I was in elementary school, specifically the 4th grade, our principal, a creole man at Johnson Lockett, implemented mandatory daily French language lessons. He said French was the language of our heritage, and it was dying, and he wanted to revive it.
Sage décision de votre directeur j'espère que vous avez suivi ces conseils.
I know this is an old video. I wish they would have interviewed people from the river parishes st james, st. John, and st. Charles also. All of my family still speaks creole.
Ive been needing to see a video of those accents.
Met someone many years ago with what i perceived to be a “foreign sounding accent” but they were from the river parishes 😭.
My grandmother is a beautiful dark smooth brown woman from Shreveport Louisiana 🥰
Same
My great-grandmother was also.
Blast from the past . I was born in 1986 raised Natchitoches
Do you know anyone with an awesome meat pie recipe?
Awh, that’s were my Granny is from !!
Meat pies I'm make mine with three meats and sauce. Bon appite
LOVED this production!
Hey, why can’t we have more programs like this? This is how us Creoles really are
Yes I am. Just moving little slow. Im goin to Carters first and get us lunch girl!
See you around 11:30.
That Alexander dude looked like one smooth brotha lol.
😂
I think it's so weird when people think if you're Creole your light skin and I was like no Creole is a culture My family is Creole half black french ancestors Yes a lot of us are of a lighter complexion but some of us are brown, and only my family who still lives in Louisiana still speaks Creole all the ones that came to Texas don't speak that way anymore. And that's just my daddy's side most of my family are ledet, LeBlanc, babineaux and thibodaux.
I kind of wish my ancestors fled to Canada I wouldn't have mind on being born in Canada. But no they spread across Texas and Louisiana Mexico and Puerto Rico, My bloodline on my mama's side only exists because of Choctaw man (My great great grandpa) decided he was going to 🍇 a black woman in rural Texas 😅 horrible but I wouldn't exist if it didn't happen.
That's because they are colorstruck especially in Louisiana..most Haitians speak creole and they are darker hues
@@avirei98 Aren't both creole and Cajun a culture made up of early settlers in certain areas of the South.
I'm British and don't know so much about such an interesting culture
Glad to see this video 💜
My grandpa said the nuns who'd teach them would hit them with a ruler on their hands if they spoke Kouri-Vini (Creole).
That's interesting sound like re education
I’m not surprised by that, this kind of teaching still happens in Haiti
😢
That's right. No French in the school yard at Catholic School
I believe Creole is a language and is just as 'pure' as Cajun, European and Canadian French. I don't see it as a lesser form of French.
Sounds exactly the Haitian creole
Haiti not the only one to speak creole in the Caribbean, how ever I hear what your saying.
so like french in louisiana the teachers punished the students when they speak creole ...
Aujourdhui il y a les droits civils
Yes
@@saintseer9578 c est mechant chatier les etudiants quand ils demandant quest le profeseur a dite.
My great aunt said they had to teach themselves English because it was considered a dirty language
Update y’all info yall left out the Root the Indians had the biggest impact of creole and French and Spanish Atakapa for my area
My family’s from Opelousas we creole asf whole lotta zydeco and crawfish 🦞
Same here, Opelousas and St. Martinville
That zydeco is atakapa ishak tribe
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Great to see Jim Geismar!! Had a lot of great memories with Big Buddy
Beautiful
Agree 👋👍
Dad got blunt too lol 😆
I live an hour from North Buxton in here in Canada. Lots of history taught about what King did.
Cajun is a dialect of French. Kouri Vini is a distinct language (not a dialect), but with French vocabulary as its primary lexifier. This fact has only been appreciated fairly recently; however, it's interesting to hear how this language was classified in the past as opposed to what we know now.
Kouri vini are Haitian Creole words that mean run and come.
What’s the name of the song?
Is it the theme song?
My roots
I wish that was as bigger effort for them to locate their African heritage inAfrica and the African language contribution to Creole which seems to be forgotten here is only the European language that is being remembered.
lol stop with that African propaganda.
Exactly 🎯.
@@weare9770exactly. Why should people of African ancestry know anything about their original heritage. French heritage is our true pride.🥰
Africa has nothing to do with us
Sa n'est pas un handicap c'est un opportunite.
Agreed
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Creole and Cajun are two different blood lineages!
Creoles were in Louisiana even before the captivities of the French or Spanish.
Cajuns arrived later, some are saying they arrived in theb1700's.
Looking at us fully embrace what the colonial powers taught us in these comments and not knowing anything about where they picked us up from is truly amazing. They 🏆 won.
We were already here
In my Creole (mother's side of the) family we were raised that Creole is French, Spanish, and Indian. Why did the man say I love crayfish in Cajun, not in Creole?
He said it in both from what i heard ( my creole is bad ) but I will try " Mo liamai crevisse " That is Louisiana-creole .
He is correct in that the language has some Spanish and in some case words picked up from Portugese which I'm currently studying.
I can understand most of what he spoken fwiw.
Half of my family speaks creole
My grandfather escaped slavery from there in Louisiana and he spoke creole I guarantee 💯
Why are there many Haitian creole words and phrases in Louisiana creole language? Even the days of the week are the same.
I'm not an expert but a lot of Haitians came to Louisiana after the revolution. Maybe they evolved in a similar way of their own accord.
Cause we got the same colonizer France that’s why Haiti, Louisiana, Guadeloupe, La Reunion etc have common words in creole
Yes but in mississippi creole is haitains creole
It’s mostly due to those that had enough money to move out of Haiti did. Their government leaders are nasty people.
@@senpai704 no it’s not
These were probably our tribal languages!!!
Correct
10:39!!!!!!
📢 We're having alligator soup tonight!!!
Mo byin héré pou gaddé vidiyo-çila
😆 ni mwen tou
Vagin a l
I'm. Creole , I. Only. Like. Other Creole. Ppl