Lost Nation: The Ioway

New "Ioway" Films Receive Grant Award from the Nebraska Humanties Council

Kelly and Tammy Rundle of Fourth Wall Films in Moline, Illinois have received a media grant from the Nebraska Humanities Council (NHC) via their fiscal sponsor Native American Languages of the Americas, for two new historical documentary film sequels entitled Lost Nation: The Ioway 2 & 3.

The two new documentaries will pick up the Ioway Native American story in 1837, where Lost Nation: The Ioway 1 left off, and they will be released on a single DVD in 2012.  As with Ioway 1, the DVD will feature an alternative soundtrack in the endangered Ioway language.

The Nebraska Humanities Council previously supported the Rundles' Lost Nation: The Ioway 1 and Villisca: Living with a Mystery.

Lost Nation: The Ioway 2 & 3 is one of many grants funded by the NHC.  The NHC awards more than $200,000 in grants each year.  Created in 1973 as a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the NHC is an independent, non-profit organization governed by a volunteer board of public and academic members.  The NHC funds programs that explore Nebraska's heritage, build communty awareness, and strengthen our ties to cultural traditions at home and abroad.

For more information visit: www.NebraskaHumanities.org

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"The Ioway Indians" Gets Cover Update

The Ioway Indians by Martha Royce Blaine from the University of Okalhoma Press has been updated with new cover art featuring Ioway leader No Heart as depicted by Charles Bird King.  It appears there haven't been any additional editorial changes to this "new" 1995 edition.

From the publisher:

Beginning with archaeological sites in northeast Iowa, Martha Royce Blaine traces Ioway history from ancient to modern times. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, French, Spanish, and English traders vied for the tribe’s favor and for permission to cross their lands. The Ioways fought in the French and Indian War in New York, the War of 1812, and the Civil War, but ultimately their influence waned as they slowly lost control of their sovereignty and territory. By the end of the nineteenth century, the Ioway were separated in reservations in Nebraska, Kansas, and Indian Territory.  A new preface by the author carries the story to modern times and discusses the present status of and issues concerning the Oklahoma and the Kansas and Nebraska Ioways.

Illustrations: 26 b&w illus, 11 maps
Published: 1995
Paperback ISBN: 9780806127286
384 pages, 6.75" x 10"
Subject: American Indian

http://www.oupress.com/ECommerce/Book/Detail/586/the%20ioway%20indians