Widzhebue May 13, 2025 While picking berries, she was captured by Assiniboine raiders, dreaded enemy of the Shoshone. She was taken to Northeastern Montana. Given to a warrior as a second wife, she found the first wife intended to kill her, so she planned her escape. She hid in a hole in a river bank for three days, then made her way over 1200 miles back to her family on the Raft River. She was the mother of Chief Pocatello.

Widzhebue

May 13, 2025

While picking berries, she was captured by Assiniboine raiders, dreaded enemy of the Shoshone. She was taken to Northeastern Montana. Given to a warrior as a second wife, she found the first wife intended to kill her, so she planned her escape. She hid in a hole in a river bank for three days, then made her way over 1200 miles back to her family on the Raft River. She was the mother of Chief Pocatello.