Connecting people to the history, living cultures, and ecology of the Columbia River system through Indigenous voices.
Confluence project sites span 438 miles in Oregon and Washington. Each of our five completed art landscapes was chosen because of its historic and cultural significance to the Indigenous peoples of the Columbia River system. Come experience your “confluence moment,” where art has a unique power to connect you to the history, culture and ecology that have shaped this land.
Confluence artworks invite you to reimagine our shared environment as it once was and what it could be. References to the Lewis and Clark journals are reminders of a snapshot in recorded time more than two centuries ago as we look two centuries forward to imagine a better future for the Columbia River system.
Visit our sites on your own or with family, friends and colleagues. Always feel free to contact us for advice and guidance at 360-693-0123.
Your contribution to Confluence supports unique education programs that bring Native artists and educators into schools and community gatherings in which Indigenous perspectives are the focus. You also support the conservation and stewardship needed to care for our five completed sites along the Columbia River system for generations to come. Become a Friend or Legacy Maker of Confluence today!
“I support Confluence because I learned more about northwest Native American history and culture in one Confluence Story Gathering than in twelve years of education in Oregon schools and five years at Oregon and Washington universities.”
~Anonymous Confluence Legacy Maker
Historians, like Alice in her Adventures in Wonderland, tend to fall down rabbit holes. At least that’s what it feels like sometimes, getting lost in research into one period or people or historical event. In this episode of the Confluence podcast, we hear from a group of historians musing on their experiences going down rabbit holes in their study of Indigenous history.
Virginia Beavert (Yakama) speaks to Confluence in Ichishkíin Sɨ́nwit about education. English transcription included.
This field guide was created as part of Confluence’s education programs connecting students with the history, culture, and ecology at the Story Circles at Sacajawea State Park in Pasco, WA. It is designed to guide you though what you see, hear, and feel there, and prompt thinking about changes in the landscape.
