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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.
Lushootseed word for Puyallup 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 แม่น้ำโขง 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 Lushootseed word for snowy mountain
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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.   |
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Vaughn Bell is an artist who also teaches at the University of Washington-Tacoma. Her other projects are at www.vaughnbell.net Archives
August 2019
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