There is evidence that Sacred Sun was the “country wife” of one of the Chouteaus or a close associate of theirs. The Chouteau family, led by Pierre de Laclède and Auguste Chouteau, had founded St. Louis in 1764. Sacred Sun and her French Osage daughter, Amelia, are mentioned in a treaty signed on December 30, 1825. This treaty “moved the Osage completely out of the state of Missouri and the Territory of Arkansas, but several tracts of 640 acres on the north side of the Marais des Cygnes [River] were set aside for French-Osage children, including one for ‘Amelia, the daughter of Mi-hunga’—evidence that ‘Mi-hunga,’ or Sacred Sun, had a child by one of the traders.” [McMillen, Into the Spotlight: Four Missouri Women, pp. 21–23. For more information about “country wives” see McMillen, “Les Indiens Osages: French Publicity for the Traveling Osage,” MHR, p. 297.]