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 NAME: Therese DuFAULT  Guardian of North American Native Mitochondrial DNS to pass on to daughters CHIPPEWA Metis (likely 1/2)
aka: see CLUES for other possible names & spellings

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BIRTH:  c1784

BAPTISM:

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

SIBLINGS: Unknown

MARRIAGE: (were Therese & Basile married?)

SPOUSE: DAVID, Basile may be Metis 

CHILDREN:
DAVID, Madeleine  1804   CHIPPEWA Metis

LIFE EVENTS:
Daughter's Scrip Application lists Therese as Half-Breed.
Reference:RG15 , INTERIOR , Series D-II-8-a ,
Volume 1321 , Reel C-14928 , Access code: 90
File Title: Scrip affidavit for GAUDRY, Madeleine,
born: 24 June 1804;  wife of AndrĂ© Gaudry;
father: Basile David (French Cdn.);
mother: Therese DUFAULT (Half-Breed);
claim no: 686; date of issue: June 22, 1876

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

DEATH:

BURIAL:


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.
Yellow River
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.
         
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