Marie Dorion Found Her Husband Dead In The Snow — Then Crossed 250 Miles Of Frozen Wilderness With Her Two Children
The Oregon Encyclopedia has an entry.
The National Park Service has a page on her life.
The state of Oregon has recognized her with official historical designations.
These commemorations exist.
They are not nothing.
But they are not, by any measure, proportionate to the scale of what she did or to the significance of her role in the history of the American West.
Part of the explanation for this disproportion is structural: the people who wrote the history of the fur-trade era wrote about people like themselves.
They were literate, European or Euro-American men who participated in an enterprise they understood as American commercial expansion.