Born and raised in Massachusetts, Richere had no clue how far back her Native American ancestry was. As she learned more about her grandparents and heard the stories about her 'gambler Indian great-grandfather" she began to investigate her ancestry. A direct descendant of Chief (Sachem) Heni' Membertou, the first Mi'kmaq/MicMac native of Nova Scotia to be baptized by the Christian missionaries and the Chief of the Mi'kmaq tribe in Nova Scotia, her family intermarried with the first French colonists of Quebec and eventually migrated to the United States into Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. While you might expect a Native American to NOT be related the Royal families of Europe or the Merovingian Dynasty, that's not true. The French families they intermarried into were of Royal blood and can be traced more than 80 generations throughout England, Wales, France, and Palestine, with a few drops of Scottish for good measure. Enjoy the journey as you explore the many generations of Native American / French families as they melt into the fabric of Canada and the United States.