AP Wire | 09/07/2005 | Evacuated Creoles vow to maintain culture
AP Wire | 09/07/2005 | Evacuated Creoles vow to maintain culture: "LOS ANGELES - Wilda Little speaks Creole with her cousin two or three times a week and listens to her favorite zydeco bands on aging vinyl records, but that's about as close as the Louisiana transplant gets these days to the Creole culture of her youth.
'My children never learned Creole,' said Little, 80. 'They were never interested in that.'
Her culture has been in a long decline here, as zydeco dance halls shut down and native Creole speakers died. And now, Hurricane Katrina has dealt these remote outposts of shrimp gumbo and the zydeco two-step a devastating blow.
Creoles who live thousands of miles from the bayous of southern Louisiana suddenly find themselves uncertain ambassadors for a city - and a way of life - that is endangered."
'My children never learned Creole,' said Little, 80. 'They were never interested in that.'
Her culture has been in a long decline here, as zydeco dance halls shut down and native Creole speakers died. And now, Hurricane Katrina has dealt these remote outposts of shrimp gumbo and the zydeco two-step a devastating blow.
Creoles who live thousands of miles from the bayous of southern Louisiana suddenly find themselves uncertain ambassadors for a city - and a way of life - that is endangered."
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