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Confluence of the Columbia and Snake Rivers

Maya Lin's designs for this site near Pasco, Washington, explore connections of cultures to one other, and to the landscape. Visitors’ sense of the place as meeting point of native cultures, languages, flora and fauna, will deepen as they walk the site.

Seven "Story Circles" take the form of raised and lowered rings set into the ground. Surrounding the circles are tribal stories in narrative and image, cut into basalt rock and speaking to connectedness of people and place.

As they pass from one Story Circle to the next, visitors will be led to consider how communities of people, environmental forces, and intersecting bodies of water, continue to shape the land around them.

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