If you put ten Creole families in a room, you would hear ten different versions of what "Creole" means to them — different languages, different skin tones, different religious practices, different relationships to Africa, France, Spain, the Caribbean, and Louisiana itself. This is not a flaw in the culture. It is the culture. Creole Identity Was Built at a Crossroads Creole identity was never built by one group moving in one direction. It was built at a crossroads — free peop