Growing up Cajun

We all are a part of our families. Who they are & who you are depends upon dna & upbringing.
To start off, there are small nuclear familes related & bound by blood & marriage together into clans. Clans together are communities. Communities together are society.
Where I come from, family means everything.
In my community, we grew up hearing & speaking Cajun language. Nowadays there are many words from English in our language, but still many words from French, whence it originated. I could go into a history of the English & French languages in Europe & Americas in another post.
The first words a Cajun child usually hears are "sha" or "chere bon Dieu". After that we hear "gumbo", "jambalaya", "bouille", "crawfish", etc; I could go on, & i shall later; usually pronounced in the unique Cajun accent which places syllable emphasis much differently from the English Southern American accents around us. South of I10 is Cajun country. We are a unique society. We share the Heritage of the Confederacy with the other Southern states, but instead of a system of common law; which they share with the other states; we have the Civil Law system; which we share with Puerto Rico.
Cajun country is full of Trees...
Grand Bois is a place in the swamp, it is very large geographically, but has a very small human population; It has a large alligator population.
The trees are Cypress & Bois e'coneur. The woods are swampy & full of boscoyo s.
Then there are the Pecan trees.
We Cajuns love to cook...