Acadian

[Merna]

Original French [settlers] of northeastern America in the 17th century. Friends to the native Mikmaq, neutral in the French/English hostilities. [Deported] from Acadie ([Nova Scotia]) by the English in the Grand Expulsion. Some landed in Louisiana, ancestors of the cajun. Others ended up across North America, in France, and even England.

[Ernesto]

Relating to Acadia or its people.