Catherine ASSABABICH

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abt. 1647 , Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France

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Unknown ASSABABICH Marie MITEOUAMIGOUKOUÉ (MITE8AMEG8K8E)

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Born: abt. 1647 in Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France

Father: Unknown ASSABABICH

Mother: Marie MITEOUAMIGOUKOUÉ (MITE8AMEG8K8E)

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The Sharing Circle: Stories about First Nations Culture by Theresa Meuse

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Early 1600s–1760: Canada, New France
1760–1763: Canada
1763–1791: Province of Québec
1791–1867: Lower Canada
1867–present: Québec, Canada

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1652

Baptised 1 Nov 1652 in Trois-Rivières. The witnesses for Catherine's baptism were Assababich, Marie Mite8ameg8k8e and Anne Duherisson. Father Joseph Duperon, Jesuit priest performed the baptism.

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April 1652 -- '...Several days before, a band of Iroquois warriors had attacked her village, the village to which Assababich, her husband, her two children and a very close cousin had fled when the Iroquois had pushed the Hurons, then the Algonkins from the fertile Ottawa River Valley (border between Ontario and Québec). Led by Sachem Pachirini, chief of the Weskarini Band of the Christian Algonquin people, the peaceful clan, along with the French Colonists at Trois-Rivières had fought valiantly. The women and children had fled into the forest while the remaining warriors and soldiers fought to save their peaceful village. During the flight into the woods, Assababich's two children were abducted and eventually adopted by the

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