Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Warren Perrin, lawyer and founder of the Acadian Museum in Erath, tells the story of how the Acadian people came to the U.S. and ...

Because they want to speak and keep the language of Cajun French alive, a group called The French Table gathers once a month in a study room at the West Feliciana Parish to speak, study and share.

For Eunice native and 2019 LSU graduate Lauren Vidrine, one word she grew up hearing hundreds of times during her Cajun upbringing — 'kyoo' — helped shape her path during her teenage years and her ...

Throughout this summer, Mavis Fruge is doing everything she can to spread the French language. Earlier this month, Fruge received a grant from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. She’s now in ...

There's a little radio station in south Louisiana. It's been on the air for nearly 70 years, doing everything it can to keep alive a dying language. That's Cajun French. On Saturday mornings, it ...

ERATH — It was French that attracted the Acadians to Louisiana. After years of imprisonment, Joseph Beausoleil Broussard brought his band of Acadians to the West Indies and then followed his people's ...