Hell or High Water: How Cajun Fortitude Withstood Hurricanes Rita and Ike Angola From Behind the Mask brings

From Behind the Mask brings together essays written over a period of more than forty years

and a generous serving of Native American philosophy

Scopena was not only a major business but also its own community

antebellum Louisiana experienced a period of immense economic and population growth

This scrupulously crafted volume finally gives educators a resource to bring this important part of Louisiana’s history and culture to a more prominent place in the classroom

Hell or High Water: How Cajun Fortitude Withstood Hurricanes Rita and Ike Angola From Behind the Mask bringsHow Cajun Fortitude Withstood Hurricanes Rita and Ike Ron Thibodeaux 2013 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Regional Non fiction Winner 2013 Independent Publishers Silver IPPY Award in Southern Regional Non ficton Americans will long remember 2005 as the year of the hurricane, when so many storms formed in the north Atlantic that we ran out of names and had to use letters of the Greek alphabet to identify them. In the midst of that turmoil, one of the