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Sophie Morigeau’s Landscape

March 2, 2015 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes

Where Sophie Morigeau Lived

 

Sophie Morigeau was the daughter of a French-Canadian free-fur trader and a Cree-mixed blood mother, born in the beautiful valley of the Columbia River headwaters in 1836.  While many attempts were made to “civilize” her through Catholic Mission schooling, marriage and other conventions, Sophie couldn’t fit the mold and became a rare free-trader like her father. In writing about Sophie, I found myself drawn to her feral soul – an adventurous spirit returned to the wild.  Here is a map of her world, without national boundaries, because they only began to be relevant near the end of her life.

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Eileen Delehanty Pearkes explores landscape, history and the human imagination in writing, maps and visual notebooks.

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