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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: July 2, 2017
Caption: Memaloose -- Island of the Dead Marker
Additional Description: Captions: (bottom left) The lone monument on Memaloose Island marks the grave of Victor Trevitt, a pioneer printer, businessman, state legislator, and friend of the Indians. Trevitt requested burial here among the people he loved. Ironically, water rising behind the Bonneville Dam prompted relocation of Indian graves during the 1930's, but Victor Trevitt's grave remains.; (upper right) Burial canoe; (background) Memaloose Island is one of several "islands of the dead" once found in the Columbia River. Many of these islands are today covered by the backwaters of Columbia's dams -- only one-third of this island seen by Lewis and Clark is visible above the river today.
Submitted: January 2, 2018, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p410824
File Size: 3.477 Megabytes

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