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2 unusual facts about Pierre Bottineau


Pierre Bottineau

Known as the "Kit Carson of the Northwest", he was an integral part of the history and development of Minnesota and North Dakota.

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His father Charles Bottineau was a French-Canadian Protestant, and his mother Marguerite Macheyquayzaince Ahdicksongab "(Clear Sky Woman)" was half Dakota and half Ojibwe of the Lake of the Woods band, she was a sister of Pembina Ojibwe Chief Misko-Makwa or Red Bear.



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