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The Oregon Journal, Portland, OR., November 19, 1922, section 3, page 9

INDIANS MOVING BODIES
Island In Columbia No Longer To Be Burial Ground

YAKIMA, Wash. Nov. 16. - Memaloose island in the Columbia river, for many years a burying ground for Indians, is to be abandoned as a cemetery, and bodies already buried there are being removed.
Many years ago the Indians laid their dead in canoes placed high in the air on supports. Later they adopted the custom of burying them in a common grave, covered with boards and earth. Of late, however, these graves are falling in, and now it is planned to inter the bodies elsewhere.