[citation needed] Jean so loved Anne that he obtained permission from Fort Commandant Louis Antoine Juchereau de St. Denis to marry her.
[5][6] Unlike many other Native American wives of European men of that era, her marriage and children were recognized by the Catholic Church and French colonial government, as opposed to being treated as slaves.
[citation needed] Other Native wives including Anne's godmother Angelique, the widow of St. Denis's servant, Charles Dumont, did not know how to read or write.
[citation needed] That respect allowed her children, although being metis (mixed race, half Indian), to be recognized as full citizens.
[citation needed] They traveled along the Red, Sabine, and Trinity Rivers where they lived among and traded with the Natchitoches, Hasinai, Nasoni, Yatasi, Tawakoni and Kadohadacho Indians.
Her son, Jean Baptiste Brevelle, Jr., with his knowledge of various Caddo languages and customs, worked as the famed translator, arbitrator, explorer, and soldier for the French and Spanish crowns.
For his service, he was issued a large land grant of fertile farmland south of Natchitoches along the Cane River that the Catholic Church called paradise on earth.