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YouTube Cajun Round-Up

This girl, Amanda Shaw, is awesome! This song makes me wanna dance.. especially when the band kicks in.

I searched for the term Cajun on YouTube and found a few interesting videos, most notably:

  • Pirogue Maker - This is a really old video showing an old Cajun making a pirogue.
  • Chataignier Mardi Gras 2004 Video Sample - This video shows, as it suggests, a clip of Cajuns in the super small town of Chataignier in Evangeline parish (pop. 383) celebrating Mardi Gras. Chataignier, pronounced Shah Ton Nyay, is French for chinquapin (chick-a-pin), a small chestnut.
  • Party of Doom - Here’s a few dronk Cajuns celebrating the return of a Cajun soldier from Iraq.

Many of the results return videos of Gamit, the “Cajun” character of X-men. Gambit was born in New Orleans. He must have been one of the less than 1% of Cajuns who live(d) there. The creators of X-Men should have made him come from the community of Lebeau in St. Landry Parish, at least then he would have been born in Cajun Country! And lawd knows where that accent and improper pronounciation of “cher” is from. Not from Acadiana, that’s fo’ sho!

1 Comment so far

  1. patti June 10th, 2006 10:59 pm

    You’ll get more results plugging “Zydeco” into the youtube search. Of course, if you’re not interested in zydeco, you won’t like what you see!

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