LibGuides: COL: Film and Lecture Series 2024-2025: 2017 Film and Lecture Series

Events - September

Thursday, September 14: Native American Environmentalism - Panel Discussion

7 p.m., John Edson Anglin Performing Arts Center

A panel presentation and discussion about Native American environmental issues will feature Buder Scholars from the Brown School of Social Work at Washington University. The Oglala Sioux and Diné tribes will be represented.

Stephanie Gutierrez, Oglala Sioux, with Hope Nation LLC, will present about histories and policies that have affected land bases over time. Buder Scholars Melissa Yazzie, Diné; Apryl Joe, Diné; and Kyla Woodard, Oglala Sioux, will discuss current environmental issues affecting tribes.

American Indian responses to Environmental challenges
National Museum of the American Indian - Select a tribe to discover how these Native communities are making a difference.
Cursed by Coal: Mining the Navajo Nation
13 minute video - "The 27,000-square-mile reservation straddling parts of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah has an extremely high abundance of many energy resources — particularly coal. "
Environmental Protection in Indian Country
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - American Indian Tribal Portal
Kathryn M. Buder Center for American Indian Studies
"Founded to provide scholarships for American Indians and has grown into one of the most respected centers in the nation for academic advancement and study of American Indian issues related to social work."
Osage Trail Legacy
The Project: Celebrating the Osage Nation's history and legacy, this 35-foot tall steel sculpture is at the Cuba Missouri's Visitor’s Center.
Thunder Valley CDC
"A Lakota ran grassroots Community Development Corporation that is building a community as a catalyst to create systemic change on the Pine Ridge Reservation."
The Tribal Energy and Environmental Information Clearinghouse (TEEIC)
Provides information about the environmental effects of energy development on tribal lands. Office of Indian Energy and Economic Development

Library Search - Articles
Over 150 articles on "native american and environmental aspects"

Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians but Were Afraid to Ask by Anton Treuer
ISBN: 0873518616
Publication Date: 2012-05-01
The Praeger Handbook on Contemporary Issues in Native America by Bruce E. Johansen
ISBN: 0275991385
Publication Date: 2007-04-30

Events - October

Thursday, October 19: The Prison in Twelve Landscapes - Documentary Screening

Guest Speaker: Missouri’s Public Defender System

6:30 p.m., John Edson Anglin Performing Arts Center

The Prison in Twelve Landscapes is a film about the prison in which we never see a penitentiary. Instead, the film unfolds as a cinematic journey through a series of landscapes across the USA where prisons do work and affect lives.

Library Search - Articles
Fifty articles on "Prisons, economics and United States"
Library Search - Articles
Over 130 articles on "Prisons, social and United States"
Missouri State Public Defenders
"The mission of the Missouri State Public Defender System is to provide high quality, zealous advocacy for indigent people who are accused of crime in the State of Missouri.
The lawyers, administrative staff, and support staff of the Public Defender System will ensure that this advocacy is not compromised.
To provide this uncompromised advocacy, the Defender System will supply each client with a high-quality, competent, ardent defense team at every stage of the process in which public defenders are necessary."
Ford, Matt. "A ‘Constitutional Crisis’ in Missouri" The Atlantic, March 14, 2017.
"In a class-action lawsuit filed Thursday, a group of defendants argued the state’s public-defender system is too underfunded and overworked to meet the Sixth Amendment’s standards."
Griffin, Marshall "Missouri State Public Defender: Without more money, offices around the state may have to close", St. Louis Public Radio, February 27, 2017
"The head of Missouri's Office of the State Public Defender has been seeking more money for years, to no avail. Now, he says it's crucial: Outposts around the state may have to close, including the division that handles death penalty cases."

Key Concepts in Crime and Society by Ross Coomber; John Scott; Joseph F. Donnermeyer; Karen McElrath
ISBN: 0857022563
Publication Date: 2015-01-02

Events - November

Thursday, November 2: My Vietnam Your Iraq - Documentary Screening

Guest Speaker: Veterans and PTSD

6:30 p.m., John Edson Anglin Performing Arts Center

My Vietnam Your Iraq tells the stories of Vietnam veterans and their children who have served in Iraq. Their stories examine the pride, challenges, fears, and the myriad of emotions they have experienced during and after deployment.

My Vietnam, your Iraq [videorecording] / by produced, directed, and edited by Ron Osgood.
Call Number: DS 559.72 .M98 2011
ISBN: 1608834530
Publication Date: 2011
Hornet's Nest [videorecording] / by by Frank Adamski
Call Number: DS 371.412 .H67 2014
Publication Date: 2104

Veterans and Military Student Resources
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Library search - Feature films - War films
Feature films, drama versions of War Films available for check out from ECC Library.
Library Search - "Iraq War, 2003-2011"
32 books and DVDs on the subject of "Iraq War, 2003-2011"
Library Search - "Veterans - United States"
Over 180 books, electronic books and DVDs on the subject of "Veterans - United States"
Library Search - "Vietnam War, 1961-1975"
Fifty books and DVDs on the subject of "Vietnam War, 1961-1975"

Events - November

International Education Week, 2017

Saturday, November 11: International Day

Monday, November 13 through Friday, November 17: International Education Week

Guest speakers and activities throughout the week.

International Education Week 2016
Last year's schedule, 2016, of events