[1] Mary was the first generation of one of the main families of what is referred to as the Métis people, the offspring of European men who married Native American women.
The Métis played a major role in the 19th century fur trade in Missouri and Kansas.
According to Thorne: "Here in 1805 Joseph Robidoux fathered a child, Mary, by an Indian woman.
This daughter would marry Chief White Cloud of the Ioway, producing a chiefly line among that tribe.
Joseph Robidoux's French-Ioway daughter, Mary (Many Days), married Ioway chief White Cloud.