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The Enterprise, White Salmon, WA., May 29, 1936, page 8

INDIAN REMAINS IN NEW RESTING PLACE
Bradford Island Burying Grounds To Give Way To Progress

The bodies of Indians, buried on Bradford island where the Bonneville project is being developed, found a new resting place Wednesday. On Bradford island, which cleaves the Columbia's current below the Bridge of the Gods, the ancients buried their dead from the beginning of their time. There they blocked the path of progress. With the construction of Bonneville dam they were rooted up as steam shovels bit into the burial place.
Wednesday they were consigned again to the bosom of the land where their spirits dwell - this time in Greenleaf cemetery, one mile west of North Bonneville. For months the army engineers have awaited for the few remaining descendants of these ancient dead to say where they wished their bones to lie. Finally Colonel Williams ordered interment in the spot favored by most of the tribesmen. Richard J. Grace, assistant engineer and student of the Indians and their language, presided at the simple ceremony. Fred U. Robin, Cowlitz county pioneer, opened the service with the Lord's Prayer in the Chinook tongue. Captain J. S. Gorlinski, resident engineer at the dam, presented to the Indians a fitting granite monument bearing in Chinook the words "The Ancient People Sleep Here."
C.R. Wittlock, agent of the Yakima Indian reservation, accepted the monument on behalf of the Tumwater, Warm Springs, Umatilla and Yakima tribes, who had representatives present. The old men of these tribes then conducted the burial ceremony in their own ancient ritual.
Others who participated include Mrs. Isabell Underwood, granddaughter of Chief Banaha of the Tumwater tribe, whose bones may be among those who rest was so rudely interrupted by the march of progress; Mrs. Mary B. Lane, daughter of Amos Underwood, founder of the town of Underwood; Don E. Brown of the Skamania Historical Society and Walter Hufford, mayor of Stevenson.
Thus the bones of the men of bygone times once again find rest where their spirits may look down on their original resting place.