The elders
First-person family history from the people who carry it — recorded before it's lost.
Who Yo People · by Vues de Culture
Who yo people?
A Black Louisiana oral history archive. Record your family's story, in your own voice, and keep it forever.
Recording at Creole Culture Day — October 3, 2026 · Grand Coteau, Louisiana
The Mission
Every family is an archive.
"Who yo people?" is the first question Louisiana asks you. Before your name, before your job — whose grandbaby, whose cousin, what parish, what line. It's how we place each other. We just make sure the answer gets kept.
A family in its own voice can't be lumped, can't be flattened, can't be erased.
The records are thin and the gatekeepers are thick. Church books burn. Courthouse files go missing. The people who remember pass, and the remembering goes with them. For generations, the story of who these families are got told by outsiders — lumped, flattened, and sold back to us wrong.
Who Yo People fixes that one chair at a time. Somebody sits down, says who their people are, and it's on the record forever — in their own voice, owned by the people who lived it. It launches Creole-first, but the lane is all of Black Louisiana. We don't hand anybody a label. People name their own people.
How It Works
Three steps. That's it.
Built on the StoryCorps model. You bring the story. We bring the chair, the equipment, and the keeping.
STEP ONE
Reserve your time
Sign up below and pick a window. Tell us who's recording and what family you'll talk about, so we're ready for you.
STEP TWO
Come to Creole Culture Day
Show up October 3 in Grand Coteau. Find the Who Yo People station — bring a photo, bring an elder, bring whoever holds the stories.
STEP THREE
Sit down and tell it
Record your family history in your own voice. We document it, preserve it, and keep it forever. You leave with a copy.
The Archive
A library you can hear.
After Creole Culture Day, every recording becomes part of a searchable archive — a face, a name, a parish, a voice. This is what it grows into.
Search by your people
Find a surname, a parish, a line. The archive connects to Louisiana's Creole genealogy records.
Kept forever
Permanently preserved with a Louisiana oral history archive. Owned by the community. Never sold.
The archive opens after the first recordings are captured at Creole Culture Day 2026.
What We Keep
More than names.
A recording isn't a form. It's the whole of a life — said out loud, in the voice that lived it.
Your people
Who you come from — parents, grandparents, the names and the lines that made you.
Your place
The parish, the church, the land, the neighborhood. Where the family is from and why.
Your stories
The things no record book holds — the work, the food, the language, the trouble, the joy.
Reserve Your Time
Get your slot.
Recording happens at Creole Culture Day — October 3, 2026, in Grand Coteau. Pick an open time below. Slots are limited, so book early.
- When Oct 3, 2026 · Grand Coteau
- How long 20 minutes
- Bring An elder, a photo, family stories
- You keep Your own copy
- Stays yours Signed release · never sold
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Partners
Built right, kept right.
Owned by the community, preserved by an institution, built with the people who know this work.
Owner & operator
Vues de Culture
The Louisiana cultural nonprofit that owns and runs Who Yo People. For us, by us, no exploitation.
Launching at
Creole Culture Day 2026
The 5th Annual Creole Culture Day — October 3, Grand Coteau. Where the first recordings happen.
Permanent preservation
Kept in perpetuity
Every recording is deposited with a major Louisiana oral history archive as its permanent home — and never sold.
Expert partners
Creole genealogy experts
Louisiana's Creole genealogists help make every recording searchable family history, not just a story.
Where It Launches
About Creole Culture Day
Who Yo People launches at the 5th Annual Creole Culture Day — a day of celebrating, preserving, and reclaiming Louisiana Creole culture. October 3, 2026, in Grand Coteau.
Music, food, French tables, family, and the people who carry the culture forward. The recording station is one part of a full day.
Want more? Explore everything happening at Creole Culture Day.
Learn More About Creole Culture Day
Support the work
This archive runs on community support.
Who Yo People is a program of Vues de Culture, a Louisiana cultural nonprofit. Every dollar goes into recording, preserving, and keeping these stories — for us, by us.
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