Nancy McKenzie | |
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![]() Photograph of Matooskie (date unknown) | |
Born | Matooskie c. 1790 |
Died | 24 July 1851 | (aged 60–61)
Nationality | Chipewyan |
Other names | Matooskie |
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Father | Roderick Mackenzie |
Matooskie, also known as Anne "Nancy" McKenzie (c. 1790 – 24 July 1851), was a First Nations woman of the Chipewyan (Dënesųłı̨né) nation in Canada. The daughter of Scottish-Canadian fur trader Roderick Mackenzie, Matooskie was abandoned by her father as a young girl, and was left in the care of North West Company trader John Stuart. She was later abandoned by her first husband, John George McTavish. Supported by the Hudson's Bay Company, Matooskie and her family moved to various Hudson's Bay outposts across Western Canada, before settling at Fort Vancouver in the Columbia District following the death of her second husband. In the later years before her death in 1851, she accompanied her daughter and son-in-law.
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