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Wikipedia: Louisiana Creole refers to people of various racial backgrounds who are descended from the colonial French settlers, Africans, and Native Americans from the time before the Louisiana territory became a possession of the United States through the Louisiana Purchase (1803). Historically, the term Creole was documented by Inca Garcilaso de la Vega. In "The Inca", writing in the early 1600s, he said: "The name was invented by the Negroes...
![[Gumbo is a feature of Cajun and Louisiana Creole cuisine.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Bozogumbo_s.jpg "Gumbo is a feature of Cajun and Louisiana Creole cuisine.")
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![[Creole women of color out taking the air, from a watercolor series by Édouard Marquis, New Orleans, 1867]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Creole_women_of_color_out_taking_the_air_2C_from_a_watercolor_series_by_C3_89douard_Marquis_2C_New_Orleans_2C_1867_s.jpg "Creole women of color out taking the air, from a watercolor series by Édouard Marquis, New Orleans, 1867")
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![[Amédé Ardoin, a Black Creole, made the first audio recordings of Zydeco music in 1928]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/39/Ardion.jpg "Amédé Ardoin, a Black Creole, made the first audio recordings of Zydeco music in 1928")
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