I received this wonderful and unexpected Maryland General Assembly citation when presenting the story of Acadian exiles in Maryland at the Nabb Research Center at the University of Maryland in Salisbury on the 19th of April, 2018. The "Acadians in Maryland" sign, installed in 2013 at the Manokin River Park in Princess Anne Maryland, is located in Somerset County, Maryland, which is Senator Jim Mathias' home district.  Thank you for recognizing the history of our people, Maryland!

Chris Boudreau's article, "An Ethnographic Report on the Acadian-Métis (Sang-Mêlés) People of Southwest Nova Scotia," restores the miserable story of the conflict between the PUR and the Mixed-blood people of SW Nova Scotia to its rightful place in North American history. My Anne Marie roots are among these people -- as are the roots of the descendants of Germain Doucet b. 1641. Not only were we expulsed, but the memory and history of the fact were erased from the National consciousness.

It was called "ethnic cleansing." Were it not for a targeted research of the text as Chris and his team have done, and the comprehensive DNA testing of descendants of our Acadian Metis ancestors that has gone on for the past dozen years, this awful plan that we may attribute to the conquerors of our ancestral lands may have actually succeeded completely (resulting in the total loss of our history). Thanks to Chris for his acknowledgements -- and for crediting our Acadian Amerindian Ancestry DNA  and articles as he did throughout the report. DNA is a piece of our puzzle -- and sometimes it's the only piece that makes the others fit together! Read: http://acadiens-metis-souriquois.ca/1/post/2018/03/news-and-reflections-an-ethnographic-report-on-the-acadian-metis-2018-boudreau-et-al-march-28-20183414855.html