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The Dalles Optimist, The Dalles, OR., July 13, 1934, page 6

INDIANS WILL MOVE BODY OF PRINCESS
Daughter of Chief, Buried Near Cascade Locks, Will Be Exhumed by Warm Springs Friends

Marries White Man

The story goes that Virginia was very pretty when young. When she was 16 years she married a white man named Miller, and the two lived on 160 acres of land near Cascade Locks until Miller died at the age of 80. After that time Mrs. Miller lived alone at her home.
When she was in her 96th year, she decided to visit a relative, Mrs. Charles Jackson, at Warm Springs, and it was there she was taken ill and died. However before her death, the old Indian secured a promise from her Warm Springs friends that her body would be interred in the burying ground of her forefathers.
Virginia Miller had vivid memories of the days when her father ruled the Cascades, who lived in villages formed of bark houses.
The ceremonies peculiar to her people were carried out for Virginia Miller and from Warm Springs she was taken by Cascade Locks, by Irvin and the faithful Jack Snedups, who had pledged his word that the princess' body would be taken to the burying grounds, according to tradition.

Buried With Shawl

A Persian shawl, a valued heirloom of her father's people was wrapped around her when she was buried. This shawl had been brought from Asia in a sailing vessel by traders, who exchanged it with the Cascades for furs when the Northwest was still known as the Oregon country.
Before the great lake to be formed by Bonneville dam submerges the old burying ground, the body of Virginia Miller, along with other remains, will be moved to higher ground by the government, Snedups says. Relics exhumed are to be placed in museums by the government.

The Hood River Glacier, Hood River, OR., July 20, 1934, page 5

WILL EXHUME BODY OF INDIAN PRINCESS
Warm Springs Friends Plan To Remove Remains Of Princess Virginia Miller From Locks

Waters of Bonneville dam soon will submerge the old burial ground of the Cascade Indians, where Princess Virginia Miller last of the Cascades, was buried six years ago. The aged Indian woman was 96 years old when she died, was the daughter of the high chief of the Cascades and sister of the second high chief Tormaith. Jack Snedups, Warm Springs Indian who helped bury the old Indian princess, tells of the rites held at the Cascades' burying ground near Cascade Locks. C.H. Irvin, Redmond mortician who prepared the body for burial, was present at the ceremony.
The story, according to The Dalles Optimist, goes that Virginia was very pretty when young. When she was 16 years old a white man named Miller, and the two lived on 160 acres of land near Cascade Locks until Miller died at the age of 80. After that time Mrs. Miller lived alone at her home. When she was in her 96th year, she decided to visit a relative, Mrs. Charles Jackson, at Warm Springs, and it was there she was taken ill and died. However before her death, the old Indian secured a promise from her Warm Springs friends that her body would be interred in the burying ground of her forefathers.
Virginia Miller had vivid memories of the days when her father ruled the Cascades, who lived in villages formed of bark houses. The ceremonies peculiar to her people were carried out for Virginia Miller and from Warm Springs she was taken to Cascade Locks by Irvin and the faithful Jack Snedups, who had pledged his word that the princess' body would be taken to the burial ground, according to tradition.
A Persian shawl, a valued heirloom of her father's people, was wrapped around her when she was buried. This shawl had been brought from Asia in a sailing vessel by traders, who exchanged it with the Cascades for furs when the Northwest was still known as the Oregon country.
Before the great lake to be formed by Bonneville dam submerges the old burying ground, the body of Virginia Miller, along with other remains, will be moved to higher ground by the government, Snedups says. Relics exhumed are to be placed in museums by the government.

The Goldendale Sentinel, Goldendale, WA., July 26, 1934, page 7

RISING COLUMBIA WILL SUBMERGE INDIAN GRAVES

Waters of Bonneville dam soon will submerge the old burial ground of the Cascade Indians, where Princess Virginia Miller last of the Cascades, was buried six years ago. The aged Indian woman was 96 years old when she died, was the daughter of the high chief of the Cascades and sister of the second high chief Tormaith. Jack Snedups, Warm Springs Indian who helped bury the old Indian princess, tells of the rites held at the Cascades burial ground near Cascade Locks. C.H. Irvin, Redmond mortician who prepared the body for burial, was present at the ceremony.
The story, according to The Dalles Optimist, goes that Virginia was very pretty when young. When she was 16 she married a white man named Miller, and the two lived on 160 acres of land near Cascade Locks until Miller died at the age of 80. After that time Mrs. Miller lived alone at her home. When she was in her 96th year, she decided to visit a relative, Mrs. Charles Jackson, at Warm Springs, and it was there she was taken ill and died. However before her death, the old Indian secured a promise from her Warm Springs friends that her body would be interred in the burial ground of her forefathers.
Virginia Miller had vivid memories of the days when her father ruled the Cascades, who lived in villages formed of bark houses. The ceremonies peculiar to her people were carried out for Virginia Miller and from Warm Springs she was taken to Cascade Locks by Irvin and the faithful Jack Snedups, who had pledged his word that the princess' body would be taken to the burial ground, according to tradition.
A Persian shawl, a valued heirloom of her father's people, was wrapped around her when she was buried. This shawl had been brought from Asia in a sailing vessel by traders, who exchanged it with the Cascades for furs when the Northwest was still known as the Oregon country.
Before the great lake to be formed by Bonneville dam submerges the old burying ground, the body of Virginia Miller, along with other remains, will be moved to higher ground by the government, Snedups says. Relics exhumed are to be placed in museums by the government. - Hood River Glacier.