Roy-Chouteau-Lessert Family Genealogy Information File, 1982
Entry/Object ID
AM2020.1.75
Scope and Content
Roy-Chouteau-Lessert Family Genealogy Information File, 1982. Typed correspondence from Irma Robinson Miller a descendant of Louis Roy whose daughter married one of the original French at Chouteau. The family story begins with Emily Lessert who was said to be born about 1841 to French father and Oglala Sioux mother. Emily's father is believed to be a Chouteau, and after her father's death was raised by Joseph Bissonnette.
Includes her story in the St. Louis Genealogical Society Quarterly, Vol. XIV, No. 3, Spring, 1981.
Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
Article
Nomenclature Sub-Class
Literary Works
Nomenclature Class
Documentary Objects
Nomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication Objects
LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
Fur trade
Search Terms
Roy, Baptiste, Chouteau Family
Ethnography
Notes
The word, Sioux, is referenced. Sioux is considered a slur word according to the Oceti Sakowin peoples.