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She was a sister of Le Pied Froid or Cold Foot. She married a Frenchman named Peter or Piere Roy in 1703. She died of smallpox and was buried there October 31, 1732 at Detroit. Her husband was with Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac when they landed at Detroit in July 1701 and established Fort Pontchartrain.
Some suggest she had 6 children which questions the second marriage by her husband in 1705 at Laprairie to Marie Angelique Faye Lafaillette. It is noteworthy that the Detroit area was the location of a Metis Settlement long before the French established their Fort and was likely preceded by an Indian settlement.
Brother was "Cold Foot" who died in 1751. LE PIED FROID-Headman or Okima of the Miami band at Kekionga called Twightwee or Twa Twa -Crane Totem- Atchategeoman Band. Coldfoot was loyal to the French at Fort Wayne, Indiana and Detroit but was unable to persuade othe Miami from following Old Briton, a Piankeshaw Miami to Piqua and the English fort there. He was a great great uncle to another famous Miami, Cheif Richardville. He and his son, Le Gris the elder, and his mother died at Kekionga during a smallpox epidemic during the winter of 1751-52.
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