Louisiana Public Broadcasting Presents

The Spirit of a Culture: Cane River Creoles

Season 2005 Episode 1 | 56m 22s | Video has closed captioning.

In a story that pre-dates America, the multi-cultural Creoles of Cane River, Louisiana see themselves as somewhere between black and white. The Spirit of a Culture: Cane River Creoles recounts the Cane River Creole identity struggle from colonial French Louisiana to today’s Creole led multicultural renaissance – against the notion of race as a deciding feature of a population.