The silence around the other women in the sources is not empty.

It is full of lives that were lived and lost and never written down.

The Ongoing Recovery And What It Requires

The historical recovery of Marie Dorion’s story has been ongoing since the mid-twentieth century, when Harvey L.

Carter wrote the entry on her for “Notable American Women,” published by Harvard University Press in 1971.

That entry established the basic outline of her life in a form accessible to scholars, and subsequent researchers have built on it.

The Oregon Encyclopedia entry, which is one of the more comprehensive current summaries available online, draws on Carter’s entry, on the primary sources, and on subsequent scholarship to provide a concise account that is both accurate and appropriately hedged where the evidence is thin.