The Acadians

<p>Starting in the 1600s French settlers migrate to northeastern America to a land called Acadia. They quickly become pawns caught between two superpowers-the French and the English.</p><p>After several generations in America they evolve into Acadians and no longer consider themselves French. In 1755 their worst fears are realized. They are evicted from their beloved Acadia-a clear case of ethnic cleansing with all the brutality that term implies.</p><p>Scattered to the four winds they struggle to survive. A large group eventually settles in Louisiana and gives rise to the Cajuns. Others find their way back to Acadia and nearby lands in New England and Eastern Canada.</p><p>In the 1960s a young Cajun from Louisiana and a young Acadian from New Hampshire meet in the Army and become friends until the Vietnam War tears them apart.</p>