It acknowledges the children.

Memorials of this kind are imperfect instruments of historical recognition.

A statue is not a biography.

An inscription is not an analysis.

The historical significance of a figure cannot be fully conveyed in the language of public commemoration.

But the statue exists.

The Historical Society at St.

Paul Mission, which has dedicated scholarly attention to Marie Dorion’s life, has preserved and extended the documentation of what is known.