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What is Chiac Acadian?
An Ethnic Chiac Acadian, sometimes spelled Chiak Akadian or Chiakkadian, is a mixed or creole Acadian ethnicity, originating and residing primarily in coastal south-east New Brunswick, Canada. They also speak a distinct Creole language, which is also called Chiac (yet some non-chiac of the region also speak the language).
The Chiac Acadians are primarily of Native Indigenous , Acadian , French/Spanish (Moors) and African ancestry by co-mingling and integrating with the Black Loyalists who migrated to New Brunswick, into the Chiac Acadian community of coastal southeast New Brunswick, in the 1780's.
The Ethnic Chiac Acadian has dealt with forced assimilation/rape/oppression/suppressed history/acculturation/whitewashing and subsequent deportation and enslavement primarily by the colonizing British. Due to this assimilation and colonization (prior, during and after the exile), many Chiac Acadians have lost a fair amount of their original dark pigmentation and features to some degree.
The Ethnic Chiac Acadian are a vibrant community, but they're essentially a forgotten people and a forgotten history.
Chiac Acadian - video
Chiac Acadian - what is it?
Are a generally unrecognized
métis ethnic group from Acadia (or Acadie). The Chiac are different from other Acadians as they are descendants from the Indigenous people and the 17th century French settlers. They speak their own language, which is also called Chiac, it's Eastern Algonquian-Acadian French mixed with some English. They live in the "Chiac communities" in south-east New Brunswick , Canada (Around the Coastal region, From Kouchibouguac to Cap-Pele), yet some Chiac live in other areas as well.
A Chiac Acadian is a métis Acadian living in southeastern New Brunswick