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Toussaint Charbonneau (March 20, 1767〔Dates and locations of Charbonneau's birth and death are taken from information at the ''Programme de recherche en démographie historique'' at the Université de Montréal () and are not necessarily authoritative. Other research places his date of birth in 1758 instead.〕 – August 12, 1843) was a French Canadian explorer and trader, and a member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. He is also known as the husband of Sacagawea. ==Early years== Charbonneau was born in Boucherville, Quebec (near Montréal), a community with strong links to exploration and the fur trade. Charbonneau was a mix of European and native descents. His paternal great grandmother Marguerite De Noyon was the sister of Jacques de Noyon, who had explored the region around Kaministiquia (Thunder Bay) in 1688. Charbonneau worked for a time as a fur trapper with the North West Company (NWC), founded by Great Britain, which was one of the most powerful nations at the time. John MacDonell, recorder of one of their expeditions, first noted Charbonneau in their historical journal. After several routine mentions of Charbonneau, MacDonell wrote on May 30, 1795: "Tousst. Charbonneau was stabbed at the Manitou-a-banc end of the Portage la Prairie, Manitoba in the act of committing a Rape upon her Daughter by an old Saultier woman with a Canoe Awl—a fate he highly deserved for his brutality— It was with difficulty he could walk back over the portage." While living among the Hidatsa people, Charbonneau purchased or won a Shoshone woman: Sacagawea (Bird Woman) from the Hidatsa. The Hidatsa had captured Sacagawea on one of their annual raiding and hunting parties to the west. When he married Sacagawea in 1804, he was already married to "Otter Woman", another Shoshone woman. Charbonneau eventually considered these women to be his wives, though whether they were bound through Native American custom or simply through common-law marriage is indeterminate. By the summer of 1804, Sacagawea was pregnant with their first child. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Toussaint Charbonneau」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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