Table of Contents
Introduction. Ayou Komensé: Louisiana Creole Land, Community, and Recognition Rain Prud'Homme-Cranford Darryl Barthé Andrew J. Jolivétte 3
Part 1 Sacred Histories; From Kinship to Cultural Resurgences
Chapter 1 Post-Contact Peoplehood: History, Kinship, and Redefining Louisiana Creole Indigeneity Rain Prud'Homme-Cranford 21
Community Response. So, Have You Heard the One about the Louisiana Creoles Who Fight the System of Indigenous Erasure? Carolyn M. Dunn 44
Chapter 2 Speak White, Speak Black, Speak American: Assimilation in Creole New Orleans Darryl Barthé 50
Community Response. The Racialization of Creole Identity and Heritage Language Loss Joseph Dunn 66
Chapter 3 Acadian/African/Indigenous Trinity: An Identity Mosaic from Nova Scotia to New Orleans Annalyssa Gypsy Murphy 74
Community Response. It's Not the Weight, but How You Carry It: A Prose Poem Kelly Clayton 83
Chapter 4 Bulbancha Is Still a Place: Decolonizing the Tricentennial of New Orleans Jeffery U. Darensbourg 86
Community Response. Bulbancha Is Still a Place: Decolonizing the History of the Present Leila K. Blackbird 93
Part 2 Landbase: From Homelands to Food and Health
Chapter 5 Filé Man: Creole Food Harvesting and Sovereignty Tracey Colson Antee 103
Community Response. Colson's Creole-Indigenous Cultural Continuity: Filé Man Robert B. Caldwell Jr. 111
Chapter 6 Telling It Right: In Search of the Ishak Jeffery U. Darensbourg 115
Community Response. Comments on "Telling It Right: In Search of the Ishak" John Depriest 121
Chapter 7 A Perfect Circle Bound in Chains: Creole-NDN Health, Historical Trauma, and Settler Colonialism T. Shawnee 124
Community Response. Caught in the Cycle Summer Wesley 137
Part 3 Languages: Literacies and Bodies
Chapter 8 Language Revitalization, Race, and Resistance in Creole Louisiana Oliver Mayeux 143
Community Response, Nothing to Manifesto Tanner Menard 159
Chapter 9 No Body Sings the Blues Like a FAT Body: Gender, Race, and Eco-Colonialism Rain Prud'Homme-Cranford 172
Community Response. Thunder Thighs: A Storm's Brewing / Sorte cette laville avant l'ouragan commence Frances E. Hopson-Cuevas 192
Community Response. "Fatten Up, You're Too Skinny": Body, Color, and Trauma Andrew J. Jolivétte Joelle Jolivétte-Gonzalez (In Memoriam) 197
Chapter 10 Don't Scratch My Washboard, but You Can Pull My Fiddle: Negotiating Queerness in the Creole Diaspora Andrew J. Jolivétte 201
Community Response. Bending the Story M. Carmen Lane 215
Part 4 Ceremonials and Cultural Practice: From Testimonials to Activism
Chapter 11 On Passing and Survival: Memories of a Choctaw-Apache Thomas Parrie 221
Chapter 12 LA to L.A.: Growing Up Louisiana Creole in the Los Angeles Diaspora Carolyn M. Dunn 224
Testimonial 1 Louisiana Creole Peoplehood: Mixed Race Foodways John Lafleur II 240
Testimonial 2 A Reflection Danny Lee Landreneau-Petrella 245
Testimonial 3 Interview with Kenneth L. Jolivétte Andrew J. Jolivétte 247
Testimonial 4 Reflection Pierre Brooks Metoyer 251
Conclusion. Nouzot Kréyol: Louisiana Creole Peoplehood or all our Relations Resisting Settler Violence and Indigenous Erasure Rain Prud'Homme-Cranford Darryl Barthé Andrew J. Jolivétte 253
In Memoriam. Reflections on Janet Ravare Colson, Cane River Creole Matriarch Andrew J. Jolivétte Rain Prud'Homme-Cranford Carolyn M. Dunn 263
Appendix. Louisiana State Legislature Resolution and Certificate of Special Recognition from the Governor of the State of Louisiana in honor of Janet Ravare-Colson 269
List of Contributors 271
Index 281