Sophie Mosseau (standing in middle) and six Indian Peace Commissioners at Fort Laramie for the 1868 treaty signing. The Commissioners are from left to right General Alfred Howe Terry, General William S. Harney, General William Tecumseh Sherman, John B. Sanborn, Colonel Samuel F. Tappan, and General Christopher C. Auger. According to a photograph in the Autry Museum of the American West, Sophie Mosseau was the daughter of a Lakota mother and French-Canadian trapper. However, in other museum records, there are other conflicting identifications.
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