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We dropped off the bluff and went for a brief walk down in the flats along the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers. The Minnesota splits at its mouth and flows around a small island named for Zebulon Pike to flow into the Mississippi at two points. This is the farther upstream of those points. The point downstream is at the other end of Pike Island, about 1.3 miles to my right. We were tired by this point and didn't feel like walking down there.
I might have called that differently if I'd known the significance of this place in the cosmology of the Native people. The Mdewakanton Dakota Sioux called this place Bdóte, which means "the place where waters meet," and they considered it to be the site of the Earth's creation and its very center. All lands spread out into the universe from this point, where the Earth, the waters, and the sky all connect. Before the Euro-Minnesotans showed up, there were seasonal Dakota villages and burial sites all over the place around here. I haven't done a lot of reading on the Dakota and don't know whether they ever had the kind of political capital the Ojibwe maintained over near the Apostle Islands, but this was definitely the Dakota's spiritual capital.
Which makes it logical that this is where the white men came when they wanted to get the Dakotas to sign a treaty. I already mentioned Zubulon Pike and his 1805 Treaty of St. Peters. Years later, in 1837, the Dakotas came back and signed the second Treaty of St. Peters, ceding everything around here they hadn't already lost. The Ojibwe were here for that one, handing over Wisconsin timber land. My great-great-great-grandfather came to down for that one. So I am not the first in my line to stand in Bdóte.
The Fort Duquesne Bridge anchors the foreground of this image of Pittsburgh, Pennslyvania. Taken just steps from Heinz Field.
Five exposure HDR with Photomatix.
Confluence of Alkhnanda and Mandakini rivers which are two major tributries of Great Ganges in India.
Shot at Rudraparyag Uttranchal State,India
Mahakumbh was not only a confluence of the holy rivers but also of humankind—a space, a faith, an energy, a belief, and an experience shared by one and all.
a photo of a photo from at least a decade ago....the confluence of the Russian River and the Pacific Ocean(California) , the cool water being contemplated by a captivated boy....
Magnifiques lignes horizontales et diagonales - La Confluence - Lyon - France
Marvelous horizontal and diagonal lines - Confluence new Modern district - Lyon - France
Confluence of the Cumberland and Ohio Rivers at Smithland, Kentucky. The Cumberland is on the right, Smithland Dam on the Ohio can be seen in the distance on the left.
1951 Mercury coupe. One of my all time favorite cars. I felt very special to have spent several hours alone with this car in the moonlight. They really got the styling right on this car. They look incredible chopped although I appreciate them as they were just as much. Car is not for sale, I already asked.
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Lyon Confluence est un projet de renouvellement urbain de l'hypercentre du Grand Lyon
La Fecht rejoint l'Ill, dont on reconnaît, venant de la droite, les eaux boueuses après les grosses pluies.
Illhaeusern (F-Alsace)
Hellroaring/Yellowstone Confluence. Muddy and high but somehow calm. Looking closely you'll see where they actually come together starting in the bottom left of the frame. Couldn't help but think of the Wonka River of chocolate.
A braid of the Little North Fork coming back together. Little North Fork, Coeur d'Alene River, Idaho.
The group had started their journey at a ‘depot,’ the home of Mary Meachum, a free woman of color and the widow of a prominent African American clergyman, John Berry Meachum. Some of the group was apprehended. Among them were Esther and her two children who belonged to Henry Shaw, a prominent St. Louisan.
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