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The Chiac or Chiac-Acadians (Le peuples Chiac Acajins) are the Acadians who live primarily in the rural areas of coastal south-east New Brunswick, they're different than other Acadians, as the Chiac people are descendants of the intermixing of 17th Century French settlers from Gascony and local Native Indigenous people (Wabanaki).
Some also have Black ancestry, due to intermixing with the African people (today known as Black Nova Scotians and Afro-Metis) who lived/lives in the regions of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
Due to historical Anti-miscegenation laws in the 18th century, assimilation, ignorance, social suppression and historical censorship the Chiac people have been historically forgotten, and today are only categorized as Acadians.
Chiac or Chiacque, is also the name of the dialect that the Chiac speak, yet since the 1950s and 1960s a small portion of the Chiac language has mixed with the English language, due to further assimilation with the majority English population.
Example of the Chiac-Acadian dialect: J'va telle dire cecitte, mo ej ju in Chiac Acajin pis ju bin proud en foi djeuh d'stelle la (English translation: I'm going to tell you this, I'm a Chiac Acadian and I'm faithfully proud of it).
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Chiac (Wiaqqiejig, means ''Mixed'' in Míkmaq) is a modernized term for a people whom today resides mainly in the south-eastern coastal regions of New Brunswick , Canada. They are ethnically Acadians (of the region of Acadia) but the Chiac are descendants of the indigenous Algonquian people who intermixed with French settlers in the 16th, 17th and 18th Century. Today, the Chiac speak a regional dialect also called Chiac, which is derived from a mixture of indigenous Eastern Algonquin languages, Acadian French and some English.
When the British conquered Acadia in the early 1700's, they were oppressed and forcibly assimilated by the British, also known as whitewashed , after being exiled and many enslaved in 1755, they were forced on to coastal lands in south-east New Brunswick, to segregate the Chiac-Acadians from the White-British. Their history was essentially erased and their new history was rewritten by the British and later the French, with their true culture erased and forgotten, they took the French-Canadian and Gaelic cultures around them as their own, today they're only identified as Acadians and not rightfully known as indigenous Acadians or Acadian Metis (Mestizo-Acadians).
Chiac-Acadien: I'm not European, I'm not French, I'm not French-Canadian and I'm not simply Acadian, I'm a Chiac from l'Acadie.
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The Chiac people of coastal south-eastern New Brunswick, are distant descendants of the Black Moors of Iberia and Southern France/Gaul, who were expelled from Spain in 1609, most of them who were forced to give up their names, religion and culture, and expelled from Spain to Southern France, they were assimilated and then in the mid 1600s, were shipped to the French colony of Acadia as indentured servants, they were then known as Acadians or "Of Acadia". They mixed with the other French settlers and the aboriginal Indigenous people of the region.
For the most part, the Chiac were assimilated, historically forgotten and culturally whitewashed by the British Empire, when they were conquered and colonized in the 1700s.
Today, traces can be found such as Westmorland County (West-moor-land), where the Chiac people resides, the Tintamarre tradition, which many Non-Chiac Acadians also celebrate, originates from the Chiac as Tintamarre or "Tainted"-Moors.
Today the Chiac, due to assimilation are better known as mixed creoles/metis.
A mixed Acadian, primarily with French Acadian and Native Indigenous/Aboriginal origins, yet also having Black African ancestry, mostly by intermingling with the Africans (or Black Loyalists, today some are also known as Afro-metis) who migrated to south-east New Brunswick. Since the 18th and 19th Century, the Chiac have been assimilated to a certain extent.
A Chiac can also be called an Acadian Creole or Creoles of Acadia, due to the fact that the Chiac are of mixed ancestry and its distant relation with the mixed Louisiana Creole people.
One possible theory of the origin of the name Chiac an amalgamation of the phrase "Chu a Creole" or "Ju un creole" in the Chiac creole language (In English: I'm a Creole)
The Chiac are an Acadian Creole/Metis people originating in the rural south-east coast of New Brunswick.
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Chiac (also spelled Chiak/Chi'ak/Shiak/Chiawk and Chiaw/Chi'aw), is both a dialect and a people who originated and resides in rural southeastern New Brunswick, Canada (also known as Siknikt). They're descendant from both from the Acadians and the Wabanaki indigenous peoples.
The Chiac dialect is a mixture of Acadian French and the indigenous Eastern Algonquian Languages, spoken by the Chiac Metis (or Chi'aw). Since the 1950s and 60s, contact with the dominant Anglophone community in the area, the Chiac dialect, to some degree has been influenced and corrupted by English.
The Chiac is a people and also a dialect.
An Acadian (ethnic of the Colony of Acadia) person of African, French/Spanish, European and Native Indigenous descent, living mainly in the coastal area of south-east New Brunswick, Canada. Who speak a creole language also called Chiac. The Chiac people may also be categorized as Creole or to some extent Afro Metis Creoles.
An important note, not all Acadians living in south eastern New Brunswick are ethnically Chiac.
The Chiac have been colonized, oppressed and assimilated by the White Man in the 18th Century, so much so that they accepted whatever he told them, and easily forgot who they really were.
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The Ethnic Chiac Acadian (or of the region of Acadia) are a specific mixed race or creole ethnicity that resides primarily in the coastal south-east region of New Brunswick, They speak a distinctive Creole language, also named Chiac (yet some non-chiac Acadians or French of the region may also speak the language). The word 'Acadian' in the name 'Chiac Acadian' is a demonym for the region of l'Acadie.
The Chiac Acadians also have specific ethnic Chiac surnames.
The Chiac Acadians origins or ancestries are primarily of Native Indigenous , Acadian (early French settlers of Acadia), Iberian or also known as South French/Spanish and African by co-mingling and integrating with the Black Loyalists (or Black Nova Scotians) which some migrated to New Brunswick, into the Chiac Acadian community of coastal southeast New Brunswick, in the 1780's. The Chiac Acadians also have some genetic ancestries inherited from their oppressors and colonizers, which is the root cause for a lot of Chiac Acadians being of lighter complexion or Light skin and features.
The Chiac are not French nor French Canadian or simply Acadian French, they're ethnically and distinctively Chiac Acadians, a mixed race/metis ethnicity.
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