For too long and still nowadays, insufficient place is given to the ''First Nation'' factor in the make up of the ''canadian'' at large but certainly the making of the Acadian and French Canadian character and identity.

For too long, the idea that mixed blood had ''possibly'' occurred between the first Europeans and certainly, the French colonist and the Natives of Eastern Canada (and likely from East to West, as expansion evolved) was perceived as a form of ethnic dissolution, as if the original elements of a culture would be somehow impoverished if another series of genetic traits altered the initial balance of the ''in-comers''. 

We can now say those were very Eurocentric views, because, visitors, "we were"!  And without this remarkable welcoming attitude expressed in countless forms by the aboriginals from the 1500's on, the destiny of this country would be altogether different and much poorer in multiple ways.






The First Nation heritage is an integral part of the cultural and natural landscape of America. Acadie is no exception to this.

Several thousand years of physical experience and material evolution was then transfered to the new comers as they shared a ''new world'' and a fused destiny.

From the simplest item in our lives, to the more complex form found in and around our day-to-day environment, the First People have left their influences and their marks, if they were not the true initial conceptors of these wonderful inventions we now take for granted.