When #CapeVerdeans came to the United States to work in the cranberry bogs on Cape Cod and the nearby vicinity in the early twentieth century, the school system of Massachusetts did not recognize Kriolu as an acceptable language

#Roman Catholicism provides much of the Cape Verde's religious heritage, but animist customs and beliefs linger in the practices of #CapeVerdeans in America as well as the islands

#Roman Catholicism provides much of the Cape Verde's religious heritage, but animist customs and beliefs linger in the practices of #CapeVerdeans in America as well as the islands

#Roman Catholicism provides much of the Cape Verde's religious heritage, but animist customs and beliefs linger in the practices of #CapeVerdeans in America as well as the islands

In 1971, #CapeVerdeans in the Boston area urged that their #Creole language be recognized by the Transitional Bilingual Education Act.