Jaune Smith, "State Names"

In what century did the practice of cartography first emerge and become popularized in Europe

15th

The history fo mapmaking suggests that early modern maps were often a European tool "to locate and dominate places and people" and to do so, they used strategies such as (Blank), (Blank), (Blank) and (Blank)

drawing, boundaries, gridding and naming

What were portolan charts

navigational guides for sailors that only mapped the outline of a coastal area

Maps helped create what scholar (Blank) described as a "cartographic culture"

William Boelhower

After what war was the United States Geological Survey established

Civil war

What was the United States Geological Survey initially established to do

determine optimal routes for railway lines

What Art historian noted "in the late nineteenth century the business of cartography was no longer concerned only with filling in blank spots on the map but also with the collection and communication of deeply detailed and actionable information."

Jason Weems

When was the first major survey authorized, who was it led by and when

Authorized in 1867, led by geologist Ferdinand V. Hayden in 1871

Ferdinand V. Hayden's goal was to map the (Blank) region of (Blank)

Yellowstone, Wyoming

The survey under leadership in by Hayes included what two artists

Photgrapher William Henry Jackson and painter Thomas Moran

When and who claimed that the "Government cannot do any scientific work of more value to the people at large than by causing the construction of proper topographic maps of the country"

1884, John Wesely Powell

What are Toponyms/Place names

a proper noun used to name any geographical feature

Jaune Smith was known for her (Blank), (Blank) and (Blank) art dealing with Native American history and culture

paintings, collages, installation

Smith's work "State Names" engages with the histories of (Blank) and (Blank)

cartography and naming

When was Jaune Smith born

1940

What was Jaune Smith a enrolled member of

Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Nation of Montana

Jaune Smith was raised by a single (Blank)

father

What two professions did Jaune Smith's father do

Horse trainer and rodeo performer

What did Jaune Smith learn from her father

carpentry

When did Jaune Smith begin taking college art classes

1958

When did Jaune Smith complete her undergraduate

1976

Where did Jaune Smith move to in the latter half of 1976

New Mexico

Where did Jaune Smith earn her MA

University of New Mexico in 1980

When did Jaune Smith earn her MA

1980

Jaune Smith is mostly known for her (Blank) artworks of Native American life and how their represented in the U.S.

large scale

What are some of Jaune Smith's best known artworks

"The Red Mean: Self-Portrait" (1992), and "Trade: Gifts for Trading Land with White People" (1992)

Who wrote "“My life’s work involves examining contemporary life in America and interpreting it through Native ideology"

Jaune Smith

When did Jaune Smith curate her first major exhibition

1992

Jaune Smith's first major exhibition included works from how many contemporary Native American artists

38

What was Jaune Smith's most recent curatorial project

"The Land Carries our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans"

Where was Jaune Smiths most recent curatorial work

National Gallery of Art in 2023 through 2024

When did Jaune Smith die

2025

What 3 countries are included in "State Names"

Mexico, Canada and the U.S.

States with names that come from (Blank), languages are labeled, while those with (Blank) origins are left blank

Indigenous, European

In a 2024 interview Smith revealed that her father attended a boarding school in which he would get beat if he spoke what language

Salish

T/F Copies of Smith's tribal newspaper Char-Koosta News, often appear a collaged fragments in Smith's works

True

What Tribal newspaper belonged to Smith

Char-Koosta News

"State Names" loosely resembles the brightly colored paintings of the United States map by pop artist

Jasper Johns

Jasper John's use of simple and iconic forms such as maps, the alphabet, and the American flag, underlaid with collaged texts from newspaper advertisements influenced (Blank) working methods

Smiths

Jaune Smith ties her maps explicitly to what

Native American Identity

What does "State Names" ask viewers

to think about how it came to be that Native words and places are all around us, and yet we do not think of Natives as persisting in the contemporary world

In 2018, Smith wrote that Native ways of knowing reject the notion that

“humankind is in control of nature"

State Names highlights the arbitrary nature of administrative divisions. Some borders, like the part of the United States

Mexico border traced by the Rio Grande, are determined by natural features. But others, such as the strict ninety-degree angles created by the intersection of the “Four Corners” states of (Blank), (Blank), (Blank) and (Blank) are drawn without regard for either geological boundaries or indigenous communities

The (Blank) or (Blank) is th largest reservation by land area in the U.S. and psnas across parts of (Blank) of the Four Corners states

Navajo Nation or Dinetah, 3

In State Names Southeastern Arkansas runs almost seamlessly into Northeastern (Blank) both rendered in shades of (Blank) and (Blank)

Mississippi, blue, green

(Blank, color) rivulets from Oklahoma seep down into (Blank)

Yellow, Texas

The yellow rivulets that seep down from Oklahoma to Texas are a reminder of the vast (Blank) empire

Comanche