Name/Title
Native Americans - Mary Clark and Husband, Tcho-Nims-Teaee, Daughter LucyEntry/Object ID
P-5728Description
Companion photo to P-1949 - 2 copies
Left to Right -
-Mary Clark, Granddaughter of Captain William Clark. (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)
-Husband of Mary Clark, Tcho-Huts Tchee, aka John Deleware, whose father was purported to be an interpreter for Isaac Stevens.
-Eugenia/Lucy?, daughter of Mary Clark, Great Granddaughter of Capt. William Clark
"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 Perces 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? or Lucy?), great grand daughter of William Clark.
*Added by dlking 6/3/2023*
Companion photo to P-1949
I.0525.004897 & I.0525.002708A