River Sites the Columbia River System Through Indigenous Voices
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Connecting people to the history, living cultures, and ecology of river sites the Columbia River system through Indigenous voices. Dedication ceremony at Chief Timothy Park in 2015 with Nez Perce Tribal members. The Hanford Reach A 51 mile free-flowing Sacajawea State Park stretch of the From Highway 12 in Pasco, WA, follow Sacajawea Columbia River Park Rd to the park entrance. The Confluence Story Circles are in the treed area where the two Chinook Indian Nation rivers meet. members, including Vice Chair Sam Robinson, host WASHINGTON Confluence in a ceremony Confluence of the Columbia and in Bay Center, WA. Snake Rivers Yakama Nation, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, SNAKE RIVER Vancouver Land Bridge Nez Perce Tribe, The Wanapum There are two entrances to the Land Bridge in Vancouver, WA. South: On Highway 14, take Exit 1. Turn right/west on SE Columbia Story Circles at Way to Old Apple Tree Park. Walk under the overpass to the Welcome The famous petroglyph She Who Sacajawea State Park Gate. North: Head to Ft. Vancouver via Mill Plain Blvd. Turn south at Watches or “Tsagaglala” still stands Pasco, WA Ft. Vancouver Way. Through the roundabout, turn left on East 5th in her place over the Gorge. Tours Listening Circle at available only with park rangers Street and look for the path on the right to the Land Bridge. or Tribal members. Chief Timothy Park Clarkston, WA The Portland Basin Art Installations at Made up of foothills, Confluence of the Snake and Cape Disappointment prairies, and waterways Clearwater Rivers State Park Nez Perce Tribe Ilwaco, WA Confluence of the Columbia River COLUMBIA RIVER and Klickitat Trail Chief Timothy Park Mouth of the Columbia Cowlitz Indian Tribe, Confederated Chief Timothy Park is an island River at the Pacific Ocean Tribes of the Grand Ronde, Cascade Rapids just off Highway 12, 9 miles Hells Canyon Chinook Indian Nation Chinook Indian Nation Inundated in 1938 by the Wallula Gap west of Clarkston, WA. After The deepest gorge in Bonneville Dam Carved by the Missoula Floods passing through the park North America at The Pacific Coast Vancouver Land Bridge rushing through as much as 400 entrance, drive to the T and 7,993 feet Made up of sandy plains and Vancouver, WA million cubic feet per second turn left. The trail to the forested mountain ranges Confluence Listening Circle begins at the north end of the Cape Disappointment State Park farthest parking lot. Follow Highway 101 north through Ilwaco, WA to Cape Disappointment State Park. At the crossroads, turn right to Waikiki Beach or left Celilo Park to Baker Bay. Discover Pass required. near The Dalles, OR Bird Blind at the Near The Dalles on the Sandy River Delta Columbia River Troutdale, OR A Confluence Yakama Nation, Confederated OREGON field trip at the Tribes of Warm Springs, Celilo Confluence of the Sandy River Delta, Village, Confederated Tribes of Columbia and Sandy Rivers with educator the Umatilla Indian Reservation, Confederated Tribes of Warm Greg Archuleta Nez Perce Tribe Springs, Confederated Tribes of (Grand Ronde). the Grande Ronde Celilo Falls Submerged in 1957 by The Dalles Dam The Columbia Gorge Up to 4,000 ft. deep and made up of cliffs, plateaus, and forests Celilo Park (future artwork planned) Celilo Park is located on the Columbia River, just north of I-84 off Exit 97, near The Dalles, OR. Turn Sandy River Delta north off the exit and cross the railroad tracks. The The Sandy River Delta is just north of I-84 off proposed Confluence Project here will be located Exit 18, in Oregon. Driving east, exit the freeway at the west end of the park. and turn right at the T, go under the overpass and enter the park at the sign. If you’re driving west on I-84, take Exit 18 and take an immediate right. Dancers at the Warm At the parking lot, look for the gravel path marked Springs Pi-Ume-Sha Treaty “Confluence.” Follow the path for 1.2 miles to Days Pow Wow Celebration. reach the Bird Blind. Linda Meanus, a Confluence educator, is on the far left. Jefferson Greene (Warm Springs) teaches a Confluence in the Classroom program in White Salmon, WA. Driving Directions: MILES Digital Map links available at 0 10 20 30 40 50 confluenceproject.org/river-sites Plan Your Visit Cape Disappointment State Park Vancouver Land Bridge Sandy River Delta river sites Confluence River Sites were chosen for their historic “Having an intimate connection to your place, I think really changes how you feel about it. And we’re compelled to Long before the Hudson’s Bay Company founded Ft. Vancouver, “Stories don’t only come from people, the landscape is and cultural significance to the Indigenous peoples have people understanding it in that way … because we really do believe they’re going to treat it differently.” the prairie where the Klickitat Trail meets the Columbia River always talking to us.” –Robin Dobson, Retired US Forest of the Columbia River system. –Tony Johnson, Chairman Chinook Indian Nation was a center of trade among Indigenous peoples. Service Ecologist Confluence is yours. At this site, Lewis and Clark came to the place they were Baker Bay For generations, Native American cultures lived and The confluence of what we now call the Columbia and Confluence project sites span 438 miles of river in looking for: the point where the Columbia River meets the Visit the site today to find a restored native landscape that traded at this site along the Columbia River. Lewis and Sandy Rivers is traditional hunting and fishing grounds for Oregon and Washington. Find your “confluence majestic Pacific Ocean. Their journey’s endpoint is where integrates Maya Lin’s artwork with the site’s shifting Clark camped here. Later, the Hudson’s Bay Company’s Ft. the Native peoples of this region. Today, the Sandy River moment,” where art has a unique power to connect you Confluence’s work began, with installations that draw cultural and ecological history. Run your hands along the Vancouver became the first European trading post in the Delta is undergoing a dramatic restoration, led by the US to the intersection of the history, living cultures and together the site’s bay side and oceanfront in a single, surface of a fish-cleaning table formed from a single block Pacific Northwest. Forest Service, to revive important riparian and wetland ecology of this land. steadily unfolding experience that interweaves the stories of native basalt and inscribed with a Chinookan creation habitats for fish, birds and animals. The living ancestors of of the Corps of Discovery expedition and the Chinook story. At estuary overlook, read excerpts from Lewis and The Confluence Land Bridge is a 40-foot wide earth-covered the peoples indigenous to this area continue to maintain a people. Dedicated May 2006 Clark’s journals to see this place as they saw it. pedestrian path that arcs over State Route 14. It features connection to this place. The Confluence Bird Blind, at the indigenous plants and a Welcome Gate designed by Native end of the 1.2 mile Confluence Trail, lists the bird, animals, Waikiki Beach American artist Lillian Pitt. Two cedar canoe paddles are and fish documented by Lewis and Clark, along with the Along oceanfront dunes, follow a path of crushed oyster adorned with a cast-glass sculpture of a Chinook woman’s environmental status of those species today. Stroll up a shells inland from the coastal forest, and read the text of a face, evoke the site’s role as a historic Tribal crossroads as gently curving 150-foot ramp to the bird blind, constructed Chinook song of praise in the pathway. Encounter a group well as a point of contact between European and Native of sustainably harvested, durable black locust wood. of five cedar driftwood columns surrounding a cedar tree peoples. Dedicated August 2008 Dedicated August 2008 trunk that existed before Lewis and Clark arrived. Welcome Gate, Vancouver Land Bridge Confluence artworks invite you to reimagine our shared environment as it once was and what it could be. The Lewis and Clark journals are a snapshot in recorded time more than two centuries ago to give us perspective 1–Fish Cleaning Table to look two centuries forward to envision a better future Cut from a single polished block of native basalt, this for the Columbia River system. artistic fish-cleaning table is inscribed with a Chinook origin story about the interdependence of the Chinook people For generations, our region's origin story has been and Columbia River salmon. essentially "Lewis and Clark ‘discovered’ this place and the pioneers settled it." Our mission compels us to 2–Overlook 1—Welcome Gate 1—Bird Blind replace this tragically oversimplified story with a more 1–Cedar Circle A simple, curved viewing platform offers an unobstructed The Welcome Gate by artist Lillian Pitt greets visitors, A 1.2-mile trail, built primarily by volunteers, leads from the holistic and inclusive view of history that includes the In a secluded grove, cedar driftwood columns surround a view of Baker Bay and its surroundings. Text from the representing the way Chinook people would welcome parking lot to Maya Lin’s elliptical bird blind. The wood long-neglected voices of Indigenous cultures that still cedar tree trunk that predates Lewis and Clark’s arrival. Lewis and Clark journals etched into the platform evokes someone arriving by canoe. used to build the bird blind comes from the black locust call this place home. the scene and moment they finally arrived here. tree, a long-lasting, sustainable hardwood that is considered 2–Amphitheater and Walkway 2—Overlooks invasive in the Northwest.