Marie Aioe Dorion
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Gender | Female |
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Born | Iowa |
United States | |
Date of died | September 5,1850 |
Died | Saint Louis |
Oregon | |
United States | |
Known for | fur-trading |
Pacific Northwest | |
survival skills | |
Job | Explorer |
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ID | 1243315 |
Marie Aioe Dorion Life story
"Madame" Marie Aioe Dorion Venier Toupin was the only female member of an overland expedition sent by Pacific Fur Company to the Pacific Northwest in 1810. Like her common-law first husband, Pierre Dorion Jr. , she was Métis, with her mother from the Iowa tribe and a French Canadian father.