Project Brings All the Rivers in the World to the Puyallup River
“All the Rivers in the World” brings worldwide rivers and material from the Puyallup River together
In these ongoing workshops, members of the UWT community remember the rivers they have known, write a river's name for the project, and then make something using clay mixed with Puyallup River sediment. The river names will become part of the permanent public art.
Many students, faculty and staff at UWT have participated in the All the Rivers in the World, Tacoma, river gathering workshops. River names gifted to the project are included in the permament artwork on campus. Here is a list in progress of river names. In partnership with Danica Miller, Puyallup Tribal Liaison, and with approval of the Tribal Council, we have worked to place in central positions the Lushootseed words for the river and the mountain- in the final form these will be written in Lushootseed text.
Participants share stories from the rivers they have known:
Puyallup
Chambers
Greenwater
Nisqually
Duwamish
Green
Carbon
Cayada
Clarks
White
Clover
Snoqualmie
Kelsey
Issaquah
Mashel
Sammamish
Jim
Kachess
Skokomish
Deschutes
Whatcom
Cowlitz
Dungeness
Chehalis
Cedar
Tilton
Columbia
Olympic
Elk
Willamette
Yakima
Wenatchee
Cooke
Snake
Lewis
Capilano
Napa
Klutina
Colorado
Rio Grande
Río Bravo
Arizona
Missouri
Amacuzac
Big Piney
Tallapoosa
Maumee
Detroit
Potomac
Shenandoah
Mississippi
Pemigewasset
Navesink
Charles
Lafayette
Rainbow
Page
Usumascinta
Amazon
St. Lawrence
Amber
Fun
Segura
Neckar
Danube
Rhein
الفرات al-Furāt
دجلة Dijlah
Nairobi
እደላ Shebelle
النيل
Selem
Arghandab
Langtang
Kita
한 강 Han
녹색 Green
Pampanga
Pilar
Panguil
四万十川 Shimanto
荒川 Arakawa
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Mekong
Sông Cửu Long
Bồ Đề
Saigon
Yu Cheng
Yangtze
珠 江河 Zhujiang Pearl
淡水河 Tamsui
Bride’s Pool
Keelung
Indus
Beas
“Tahoma” Mt Rainier in Lushootseed
The waters that flow in the Puyallup River begin on the slopes of the mountains, particularly Tahoma- Mt. Rainier. Eventually these streams come together and flow to the Salish Sea. Here are some field recordings of the sounds of some of this water.
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