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ART SECTION 2 - Church Rock Spill Evaporation Ponds Flashcards

1
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A biological community of living organisms

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Ecosystems (pg. 57)

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

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Wet Plate Collodion (pg. 57)

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

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Portraits (pg. 57)

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Critiqued Edward Curtis stereotyped photographs of Native Americans

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Will Wilson

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Did stereotypes photographs of Native Americans

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Edward Curtis

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A contemporary Dine (Navajo) artist

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Will Wilson

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

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Will Wilson

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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

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Will Wilson

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Was the former Head of Photography at Santa Fe Community College

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Will Wilson

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

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Will Wilson

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Made “Church Rock Spill Evaporation Ponds”

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Will Wilson

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Made the photographic series “Survey”

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Will Wilson

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

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Judy Pasternak

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

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Representatives from the Navajo Nation

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

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The U.S. Government Accountability Office

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What photographic series is “Church Rock Spill” part of

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“Survey”

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What does Wilson document in “Church Rock Spill”

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

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

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U.S. government and private American companies

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

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1940s until the 1980s

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

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4 million tons

21
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What kind of photograph is “Church Rock Spill”

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An aerial view

22
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An image is photographed from above

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Aerial View (pg. 56)

23
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A radioactive waste product from uranium mining that contains
heavy metals and radium

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Tailings (pg. 56)

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The subjects in “Church Rock Spill”

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2 ponds used to evaporate water contaminated with tailings

25
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How many ponds are in “Church Rock Spill”

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2

26
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Where are tailings pumped from and placed into

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Pumped from mines and into a pond for storage

27
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When the pond is full of tailings, what happens

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

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

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

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

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93 million gallons

30
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How many miles did the radioactive liquid in the Puerco River travel

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80 miles downstream

31
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Where did the radioactive liquid in the Puerco River end up

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To Navajo County, Arizona, and onto the Navajo Nation

32
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Largest radioactive spill in US history

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Th Church Rock Spill

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

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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.

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

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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.

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Over how many abandoned mines are on the reservation

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500

36
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Less than how many months after Three Mile Island did Church Rock spill occur

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less than 4 months

37
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Where did Three Mile Island occur

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Pennsylvania

38
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When did Wilson take photographs of the tailing ponds

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2019

39
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Why were sparsely populated desert regions of the American West, like Church Rock, selected for toxic activities

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

40
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What populations of people felt the impact of mining in desert ecosystems

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

41
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The false assumption that the activities of military and mining industries perpetuated

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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.

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

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

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

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

44
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Dimensions of the glass-plate negative in the wet plate collodion technique

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8 inches by 10 inches

45
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Prints made from the glass-plate negative are

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

46
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What does Wilson display on his person artist website

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

47
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What are Wilson’s portraits trying to do

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Humanize pictures of people who historically have been dehumanized

48
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2 19th century American photographers listed who developed specific photographic techniques to render the lands of native people of the American West

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Timothy O’Sullivan & Arthur Schott

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