It is an exercise in completeness.

The history that was written was incomplete because it was written through a framework that excluded certain experiences and certain people from consideration as primary subjects.

Making that history more complete requires the kind of sustained attention that the Oregon Encyclopedia, the National Park Service, and the St.

Paul Mission Historical Society have given to Marie Dorion: the patient assembly of documentary evidence, the careful reconstruction of what can be known, and the honest acknowledgment of what cannot.

This article has tried to do the same.