Abstract: This text traces in broad outline the mechanisms by which a group of men under forced deportation eventually settled to the price of a thousand efforts and then how history has caught up after half a century of attachment and hope. This study was made possible through the collection of field data. This took place in several phases of additional years1996 to 2012. We have learned a great fruit of these investigations both collective and individual. The individual and collective character of an anthropological investigation and settlement ceases to be a fiction when the testimonies are true and overlap. Most often the researcher is in front of the builders of what we should call "civilization”. This is the case here because there are still some Matsouanistes alive and WITH their descendants.