NAME: Therese DuFAULT  CHIPPEWA Metis
(likely 1/2)
aka: see CLUES
for other possible names & spellings
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| BIRTH: c1784 Wisconsin
Metis. Source: Gail Morin's Metis Families. Also Table 1: Genealogies of Red River Households, 1818-1870. |
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| MOTHER: Likely 4/4 CHIPPEWA, due to her Location | |
| FATHER: Likely
WHITE due name,
year, and daughter's scrip However,
may be Metis; LOOK
HERE for CLUES
Another View from R. MacQuarrie: I have no information at all on Therese Dufault, and cannot guess who her father was. But her mother probably was Cree. I say that because her only known child, Marie-Madeleine David, probably was partly Cree, and that in turn is based upon the statement of the son of Marie-Madeleine, Andre Gaudry Jr, that he was of Cree-French origin. |
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| SIBLINGS: Unknown | |
| MARRIAGE: (were Therese & Basile married?) | |
| SPOUSE: DAVID, Basile may be Metis | |
| CHILDREN: DAVID, Madeleine 1804 CHIPPEWA Metis |
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| LIFE
EVENTS: Daughter's Scrip Application lists Therese as Half-Breed. Reference:RG15 ,
INTERIOR ,
Series D-II-8-a
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Volume 1321 , Reel C-14928 , Access code: 90 File Title: Scrip affidavit for GAUDRY, Madeleine, born: 24 June 1804; wife of André Gaudry; father: Basile David (French Cdn.); mother: Therese DUFAULT (Half-Breed); claim no: 686; date of issue: June 22, 1876 |
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| QUESTIONS
& NOTES: If she is truly of the Yellow River Band, then she is of the group now called St. Croix Chippewa. LINK HERE: CLUES for FURTHER EXPLORATION and INVESTIGATION |
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| DEATH: Hearsay from
Ancestry .com 1851
Location
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Therese met Basile DAVID on the Yellow River, he
spent the winter (off an on) in her Band's Lodges.
Details on Basile's page.
The
Yellow River was called the "La Jaune Riviere" by early French
explorers
because of the bright yellow sand on the bottom of Yellow Lake through
which it flows. Located in the heart of the "Folle Avoine" or wild rice
country, it was one of the first tributaries of the St. Croix to be
occupied by the Chippewa who (ca. 1700) in bloody battles drove out the
Sioux and established permanent villages on Clam and Yellow Lakes. At
the beginning of the nineteenth century, (right around when Basile
DAVID arrived to woo Therese) rival fur-traders for the
Northwestern and the XY Companies competed fiercely with rum, trade
goods and credit for the fur-trade of the Yellow River, Namekagon,
Clam, and St. Croix bands of Chippewa Indians.