This 21-year-old Iowa Indian was the only woman to accompany the 1811-12 overland expedition to the Pacific Northwest led by Wilson Price Hunt:
Lisa Yankton
Marie Dorion
Alice Tonquin
Pocahontas
Sacagawea
Marie Dorion.
Marie Dorion, a 21-year-old Iowa Indian, was the only woman to accompany the 1811-12 overland expedition to the Pacific Northwest led by Wilson Price Hunt. Her husband, Pierre Dorion was hired as an interpreter. Marie would endure many hardships on the expedition to establish a fur trading post at the mouth of the Columbia River, but is not as well known as such American Indian women as Pocahontas and Sacagawea.
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