Marie was at the beginning of her long association with the Astorian enterprise.

Whether the two women recognized each other as counterparts, whether they spoke at any length, whether the meeting registered as significant to either of them — these questions are not answerable from the sources.

The sources mention the encounter briefly, as one of several points along the Missouri River where the Hunt expedition made contact with other parties.

What the encounter does illuminate, if it occurred, is the degree to which the figure of the Indigenous woman interpreter-guide was not a rarity in the world of early nineteenth-century American expansion.

Two such women, at the same Arikara village, in the same general period, traveling with different fur-trade expeditions.