ACADIAN/AFRICAN/INDIGENOUS TRINITY: An Identity Mosaic from Nova Scotia to New Orleans

I am an imposter. A feeling not uncommon among those of mixed heritage, feeling like a fractioned piece of differing complete and competing selves. I am tasked with bringing into the light the memory and truths of peoples whose narratives exist within the very cells of my body but whose stories I did not gain at the hearth of my collective grandmothers. Rather, this knowledge came to me as an academic, reading and researching a path back to my start, attempting to find out who I am by showing who we were. Like many people of mixed heritage, I was