Marie Dorion Found Her Husband Dead In The Snow — Then Crossed 250 Miles Of Frozen Wilderness With Her Two Children
She had waited for the canoes she knew would come.
The Oregon Encyclopedia’s account quotes her explanation, as recorded by contemporaries: she “awaited the arrival of the canoes that she knew would be coming up-river in the spring.”
This was not luck.
This was strategic patience, based on accurate knowledge of how the fur-trade world worked.
The Walla Walla People And The Role They Actually Played
Before the canoe encounter in spring, Marie had found refuge with the Walla Walla people.
The Walla Walla are a Sahaptin-speaking people whose traditional territory centered on the confluence of the Walla Walla and Columbia rivers in what is now eastern Washington and northeastern Oregon.
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