Part of American Indian Heritage month
The Diversity Office's Diversity Cinema series continues today with a screening of "Part 1 - Surviving Columbus: The Story of the Pueblo People."
The Peabody Award-winning documentary, co-produced by KNME-TV and the Institute of American Indian Arts for PBS, explores the 450-year history of the pueblo peoples' contact with Europeans in the American Southwest. It begins at 11:30 this morning in the Physics Building Auditorium at Technical Area 3.
The screening is part of the Lab's celebration of American Indian Heritage Month in April. The theme of this year's observance is "Water Flowing through all our Lives."
Part II of the documentary will be shown at 11:30 a.m., April 20, also in the Physics Building Auditorium.
On Tuesday, former Laboratory employee and now Taos Pueblo Tribal Council member Gilbert Suazo will talk about a tribal perspective on prehistoric and historic uses and efforts to preserve and protect aboriginal rights. The talk is at 11:30 a.m., in the Materials Science Laboratory Auditorium also at TA-3.
Suazo is a co-spokesman for the Taos Pueblo water task force and a member of the State Drought Monitoring Working Group.
Diversity Cinema provides an occasional lunchtime opportunity to learn about heroes and historical figures from all cultures and backgrounds, as well as other diversity-related topics. This diversity education and awareness effort supports the Laboratory's Strategic Goal H, Agile Work force. Free popcorn and soda are provided at Diversity Cinema screenings by DVO.
The final Diversity Cinema screening as part of American Indian Heritage Month is at 11:30 a.m., April 25 with a screening of Agua Es Vida: Groundwater and Sustainability, Vol. 1. The video examines groundwater hydrology and sustainability, using the Española Basin in Northern New Mexico to illustrate water resource issues typical of arid and semi-arid regions of the world. It explains the scientific principles of hydrology that are applicable to the determination of water availability and the management of groundwater resources. The video was funded by the Environmental Stewardship (ENV) Division.
For more information about Native American Heritage Month activities at the Lab go to http://www.lanl.gov/orgs/dvo/ online.
