It’s two steps forward and one back, you know, of being a Cajun in an Anglo world. But we’re not going back," Warren Perrin ...

The first victims of the move to drive out the French were not even in Canada ... forces (comprised of American colonists) burnt the Acadian settlements and shipped thousands into exile.

On February 26, 1919, Mount Desert Island became a national park. It was eventually named Acadia, the French word for "heaven on earth." George Dorr was immediately named superintendent ...

It also looks at the battles to keep the Cajun culture alive and efforts to preserve the French language in Louisiana. Against the Tide: The Story of the Acadian People is available to stream on ...