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To refind the info, do a Google search, or subscribe to Ancestry and retrace the genealogy yourself.
I sincerely doubt if Adele was Indian or even part-Indian! Her parents, Hyppolite Dufour and Louise Desbiens are both descendants of lines of people who originated in FRANCE!
The Dufours were from Lisieux (home of Ste-Therese, the Little Flower), and the Desbiens came from Poitiers. To my knowledge, there were NO Indians in France who came to settle here in North America! so you won't find any in these direct lines back ;-)
Both families also descend from some of Canada's first families (who married into theirs: Gagnés, Simards, Tremblays, Gonthiers, Belleys and Harveys, to name a few, and which are still very popular in the Charlevoix/Saguenay area Canada, where this family first settled). If there are Natives in their background is uncertain without tracing every single branch to find any, but for the most part (I'd say, 80-95% of the lineage that I've seen), there are none! and if there were any, then only way, way back at the start of what we know of today as Canada.
You originally wrote: "I grew up hearing from mother and aunts and uncles that their grandmother Adele (Dufour) Boudreau was possibly indian or part indian."
... For the record: There is not one French-Canadian descendant who has not heard the same story about one of their grandparents or great-grandparents, and in the majority of instances, it's all purely-fabricated falsehood. You can retrace your family yourself, however, to prove or disprove the truth of the statement.... the choice is yours.
and P.S. Don't believe everything you read on other people's web sites as Gospel. If they have offered no proof (via documentation on paper or DNA evidence results), then it's probably not true. Experts usually present all the evidence, and not leave one hanging in doubt, as undoubtedly this site you visited has done.
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