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Native Americans - Mary Clark and Husband, Tcho-Nims-Teaee, with Unknown Man - Possibly Joe DixonEntry/Object ID
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Mary Clark Granddaughter of Capt. Wm. Clark. 6 postcards with caption "Me and Joe opened the Flathead Reservation, Missoula, Mont.
Left to Right -
-Mary Clark, Granddaughter of Captain William Clark. (her father Halahtookit (aka Tzi-kal-tza and Daytime Smoke) son of William Clark and a Nez Perce woman who was sister to Chief Red Grizzly.- (dlking 1/14/2024)
- Unknown Man - **Possibly Joseph Moore Dixon - Found handwritten message on back of postcard that named him Senator Dixon --https://www.marylmartin.com/product/missoula-montana-flathead-reservation-vintage-postcard-aa35448/. Joseph Dixon (July 31, 1867 – May 22, 1934) was an American Republican politician from Montana. He served as a Representative, Senator, and the seventh Governor of Montana. - dlking 1/14/2024**
-Tcho-Nims-Teaee aka John Deleware. Husband of Mary Clark. John Deleware's father was purported to be an interpreter for Isaac Stevens.
"From Newberry Library - https://publications.newberry.org/lewisandclark/newnation/miners/clarkson.html
William Clark's Nez Perce Son
Many members of the Corps of Discovery had sexual relationships with women from the tribes who hosted them along the trail. One Nez Perce woman bore William Clark's son named Halaftooki (Daytime Smoke), following the Americans' stay with her tribe in 1806.
A tribal elder by the 1860s, Halaftooki hoped that his heritage would insulate him from the growing conflict between the Nez Perce and white miners and settlers. However, when fighting broke out in 1877, he fled across the mountains with his kinsmen, and was captured with Chief Joseph.
It is believed that Halaftooki married into the Salish people and had a daughter, Mary, who in turn had a daughter Eugenia, great grand daughter of William Clark.
*Added by dlking 6/3/2023*