The Mojave Project Webinar: The Legacy of the Nevada Test Site
The first panel discussion, centered on the Sacrifice and Exploitation theme, will explore the history of atomic weapons testing at the Nevada Test Site (NTS), and its long-term environmental impacts on the desert ecosystem, including the legacy atomic testing has had on the Downwinder population. The discussion will place particular emphasis on the Western Shoshone’s continued struggle to protect ancestral lands illegally seized by the federal government for the siting of the NTS during the mid-twentieth century. This panel was held as a Zoom webinar hosted by the UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art on Thursday, April 7, 2022. Panel participants include: Dr. Andy Kirk, Professor and Chair, UNLV Department of History, project lead of the Nevada Test Site Oral History Project Dr. Valerie Kuletz, author of The Tainted Desert: Environment and Social Ruin in the American West, Routledge, 1998 Kim Stringfellow, Mojave Project director, will act as panel moderator The four scheduled webinars coincide with The Mojave Project exhibition at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), and bring together a variety of voices and perspectives, including Indigenous culture bearers, scholars, researchers, artists and activists from the Mojave Desert bioregion spanning California, Nevada, Arizona and Utah. This free-to-the-public webinar series educates audiences by generating impactful conversation. The Mojave Project Webinar series is supported by a Humanities for All Quick Grant through California Humanities. and hosted by the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art UNLV.
The first panel discussion, centered on the Sacrifice and Exploitation theme, will explore the history of atomic weapons testing at the Nevada Test Site (NTS), and its long-term environmental impacts on the desert ecosystem, including the legacy atomic testing has had on the Downwinder population. The discussion will place particular emphasis on the Western Shoshone’s continued struggle to protect ancestral lands illegally seized by the federal government for the siting of the NTS during the mid-twentieth century. This panel was held as a Zoom webinar hosted by the UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art on Thursday, April 7, 2022. Panel participants include: Dr. Andy Kirk, Professor and Chair, UNLV Department of History, project lead of the Nevada Test Site Oral History Project Dr. Valerie Kuletz, author of The Tainted Desert: Environment and Social Ruin in the American West, Routledge, 1998 Kim Stringfellow, Mojave Project director, will act as panel moderator The four scheduled webinars coincide with The Mojave Project exhibition at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), and bring together a variety of voices and perspectives, including Indigenous culture bearers, scholars, researchers, artists and activists from the Mojave Desert bioregion spanning California, Nevada, Arizona and Utah. This free-to-the-public webinar series educates audiences by generating impactful conversation. The Mojave Project Webinar series is supported by a Humanities for All Quick Grant through California Humanities. and hosted by the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art UNLV.