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FIELD NOTES To Maya Lin’s Confluence Project Landscapes<\/h3>\n

During the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial (2004 – 2005), the Columbia River Tribes banded together to ask Maya Lin to help tell their story of how they greeted the Corps of Discovery in 1804 – 1805.
\nShe agreed and created six art installations along the Columbia River featuring restored landscapes inspired by Indigenous stories and
\ntraditions. These art installations were designed \u201cto connect people to the history, living cultures, and ecology of the Columbia River
\nsystem through indigenous voices.\u201d

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Field Notes tells my story as a non-native white woman navigating to each of the Maya Lin Landscapes along what we now call the Columbia River. Many of these installations were difficult to locate. But getting lost helped me find what the Great River, the Land, and its People
\nmight be able to teach me. The Confluence Project helped show me the way.
\nI wrote Field Notes to help other non-Native people in locating these often hidden riverside places with significant stories to tell. With any luck, my book might encourage travelers to look deeper into that inner terrain of discovery, connection, and teachings that I encountered on my pilgrimages to each of these sites.
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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u201cFIELD NOTES is a reflective and expansive melding of prose and poetry. Thoughtfully considered elements of the historical record and ruminations of the author\u2019s positionality and history appear in intriguing and insightful patterns alongside constellations of precise imagery.\u201d
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLaura Da\u2019\u2014
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tauthor of Tributaries, and Instruments of the True Measure (University of Arizona Press) and is an enrolled member of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma.
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u201cAnn captures the experience of visiting the Confluence sites along the Columbia River System with an open mind, open heart and an enthusiasm to learn more about the Indigenous cultures of our region. Great read!”
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tColin Fogarty\u2014<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t Executive Director of Confluence www.confluenceproject.org<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u201cHursey has written FIELD NOTES \u2013 so that those who travel searching for the Maya Lin Confluence Project Landscapes might find them more easily than she did. FIELD NOTES \u2013 contains haibun poetry, prose, diary entries, autobiography, and history. This book belongs in libraries, museum shops, bookstores and, especially, your backpack, as you follow the Columbia River and the land Lewis and Clark thought they knew.\u201d
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEsther Altshul Helfgott, PhD\u2014
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tauthor of Listening to Mozart (Cave Moon Press)
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u201c. . .the [Confluence] project works to unite a small group of people\u2014Native Americans\u2014with their fellow citizens in learning how to \u2018become American\u2019 and how best to steward the land together. The goal is to create visual markers, not monuments perse, that are in harmony with the landscape and serve as reminders that just because you don\u2019t see us does not mean we are not here. . .The education of non-Native people about the Indigenous history of this place helps them to become more from this place, and of this place.\u201d
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAnthon Minthorn, Confluence founding board chair and former chairman of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t citation from Monumental Lands, Alex V. Cipolle, New York Times, May 20, 2021
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t“Ann Batchelor Hursey\u2019s Field Notes \u2014-part field guide, part travel journal and part witness\u2014immerses the reader in the powerful Confluence Project landscapes designed by architect Maya Lin, which Hursey set out to explore after encountering Tsagaglal, \u201cShe Who Watches,\u201d at the Pike Place Market. In the spirit of the Japanese poet Basho, she uses the haibun form to offer wide-ranging observations, directions \u2014 even notes on the weather\u2014while lyrical haiku provide a distilled counterpoint. She thoughtfully interweaves quotes from Lewis and Clark\u2019s journals with stories from the indigenous cultures that have long lined the river\u2019s shores, and still do, including listings of the tribes, their languages, as well as a poignant listing of native species first encountered by Lewis & Clark. I\u2019m grateful to Hursey for undertaking her journey and sharing it. I hope readers will be inspired to do what I did: explore the Confluence project for themselves.”
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHolly J. Hughes
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWinner of an American Book Award for Passings (Wandering Aengus Press)
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