ART SECTION 2 - Church Rock Spill Evaporation Ponds

Question 1

A biological community of living organisms

Answer 1

Ecosystems (pg. 57)

Question 2

A technique that creates a glass-plate negative measuring eight inches by ten inches in the camera

Answer 2

Wet Plate Collodion (pg. 57)

Question 3

An artwork that depicts a person, often depicting their facial features and personality

Answer 3

Portraits (pg. 57)

Question 4

Critiqued Edward Curtis stereotyped photographs of Native Americans

Answer 4

Will Wilson

Question 5

Did stereotypes photographs of Native Americans

Answer 5

Edward Curtis

Question 6

A contemporary Dine (Navajo) artist

Answer 6

Will Wilson

Question 7

Spent the formative years of their life on Dinetah and studied photography, sculpture, and art history at Oberlin College

Answer 7

Will Wilson

Question 8

Earned a bachelor’s in studio art and art history at Oberlin College and was awarded a Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of New Mexico

Answer 8

Will Wilson

Question 9

Was the former Head of Photography at Santa Fe Community College

Answer 9

Will Wilson

Question 10

Presently a professor of art at the University of Texas at Austin

Answer 10

Will Wilson

Question 11

Made “Church Rock Spill Evaporation Ponds”

Answer 11

Will Wilson

Question 12

Made the photographic series “Survey”

Answer 12

Will Wilson

Question 13

Wrote a book about the disaster of the Church Rock uranium mill breach

Answer 13

Judy Pasternak

Question 14

Spoke at a congressional hearing to details remaining hazards still lingering on Navajo County from the Church Rock spill

Answer 14

Representatives from the Navajo Nation

Question 15

Made a 2014 report that Navajo people still live with the environmental and health effect from the mining operation

Answer 15

The U.S. Government Accountability Office

Question 16

What photographic series is “Church Rock Spill” part of

Answer 16

“Survey”

Question 17

What does Wilson document in “Church Rock Spill”

Answer 17

He documents contaminated lands within and on the border of Dinetah that remain polluted as a result of extractions

Question 18

Carried out environmentally harmful extraction activities within and on the border of Dinetah

Answer 18

U.S. government and private American companies

Question 19

The period in which the U.S. stockpile nuclear weapons

Answer 19

1940s until the 1980s

Question 20

How much uranium ore were extracted from mined on the lands of the Navajo Nation from the 1940s until the 1980s

Answer 20

4 million tons

Question 21

What kind of photograph is “Church Rock Spill”

Answer 21

An aerial view

Question 22

An image is photographed from above

Answer 22

Aerial View (pg. 56)

Question 23

A radioactive waste product from uranium mining that contains
heavy metals and radium

Answer 23

Tailings (pg. 56)

Question 24

The subjects in “Church Rock Spill”

Answer 24

2 ponds used to evaporate water contaminated with tailings

Question 25

How many ponds are in "Church Rock Spill"

Answer 25

2

Question 26

Where are tailings pumped from and placed into

Answer 26

Pumped from mines and into a pond for storage

Question 27

When the pond is full of tailings, what happens

Answer 27

It's evaporated in the sun until dry, at which time its toxic linear is removed and replaced

Question 28

What happened to the dam holding contaminated water at Church Rock on July 16, 1979

Answer 28

There was a breach and more than 93 million gallons of radioactive liquid as released into the Puerco River

Question 29

How many gallons of radioactive liquid was released into the Puerco River

Answer 29

93 million gallons

Question 30

How many miles did the radioactive liquid in the Puerco River travel

Answer 30

80 miles downstream

Question 31

Where did the radioactive liquid in the Puerco River end up

Answer 31

To Navajo County, Arizona, and onto the Navajo Nation

Question 32

Largest radioactive spill in US history

Answer 32

Th Church Rock Spill

Question 33

How does Judy Pasternak describe the effects of the Church Rock Spill

Answer 33

The water, contaminated with acids from milling, twisted a metal culvert in the Puerco River and burned a little boy's feet when he waded in. Sheep died, and crops spoiled along the banks. Radiation was detected as far as Sanders, Arizona, fifty miles downstream.

Question 34

What did the 2014 report from the US Government Accountability Office regarding the Navajo Nation

Answer 34

Navajo people are still facing environmental and health issues from mining operations. Over 500 abandoned mines are on the reservation, some near homes and communities, and many homes and drinking water sources contain radioactive elements.

Question 35

Over how many abandoned mines are on the reservation

Answer 35

500

Question 36

Less than how many months after Three Mile Island did Church Rock spill occur

Answer 36

less than 4 months

Question 37

Where did Three Mile Island occur

Answer 37

Pennsylvania

Question 38

When did Wilson take photographs of the tailing ponds

Answer 38

2019

Question 39

Why were sparsely populated desert regions of the American West, like Church Rock, selected for toxic activities

Answer 39

Due to the perception that they weren't nonliving spaces that weren't populated

Question 40

What populations of people felt the impact of mining in desert ecosystems

Answer 40

those who live many miles away from the actual site of extraction

Question 41

The false assumption that the activities of military and mining industries perpetuated

Answer 41

That the Indigenous people of North America exist only in the past and that they have disappeared when the West was settled under Manifest Destiny.

Question 42

How did Wilson identify the perpetuation of the false narrative of Native Americans existing only in the past

Answer 42

Through the practice of Edward S. Curtis who exhibited stereotyped portraits of Native American subjects

Question 43

One of Wilson's response to Edward Curtis's project for the broad perception of Native American identity

Answer 43

to create his own portraits in a studio setting using the traditional technique of large format wet plate collodion photographs

Question 44

Dimensions of the glass-plate negative in the wet plate collodion technique

Answer 44

8 inches by 10 inches

Question 45

Prints made from the glass-plate negative are

Answer 45

Very high in detail and quality compared to photographs printed from the smaller, modern technology of 35-millimeter negatives.

Question 46

What does Wilson display on his person artist website

Answer 46

Dozens of reproductions of portrait photographs sometimes alone, partner, or family members

Question 47

What are Wilson's portraits trying to do

Answer 47

Humanize pictures of people who historically have been dehumanized

Question 48

2 19th century American photographers listed who developed specific photographic techniques to render the lands of native people of the American West

Answer 48

Timothy O'Sullivan & Arthur Schott