Lost Nation: The Ioway

"Lost Nation: The Ioway" Program draws Capacity Crowd at Botanical Center

Kelly and Tammy Rundle of Fourth Wall Films gave a presentation on their award-winning LOST NATION: THE IOWAY documentary film series to a capacity crowd at Black Hawk College's PACE program held at the Botanical Center in Rock Island, Illinois. The event was so popular 30 had to be turned away.

Excerpts from each of the three documentaries in the series were screened and the filmmakers took part in an active Q&A following the film viewings.

"We had a wonderful and memorable afternoon presenting the Ioway films to an enthusiastic crowd," said producer Tammy Rundle. "We always enjoy revisiting the Ioway story and seeing Ioway friends that we've made over the years. IOWAY will always be a special and important documentary project for us."

To purchase Fourth Wall Films' award-winning Lost Nation: The Ioway DVD series, click HERE!

"Ioway" film screens at Atchison Cultural Center Nov. 19 as part of 'Ioway: Here to Stay' Art Exhibit

The award-winning documentary Lost Nation: The Ioway by Emmy award-winning filmmakers Kelly and Tammy Rundle of Fourth Wall Films will screen FREE to the public Saturday November 19th 1-3 p.m. at the Atchison Cultural Center, 111 N. 8th Street, Atchison, Kansas, as part of the Ioway: Here to Stay Art Exhibit. The film tells the dramatic true tale of two brothers' struggle to save their people from inevitable American conquest, and the Ioway's current fight to reclaim and maintain their unique history and culture.

 

"We will have popcorn, cider and lots of good conversations around this moving documentary film playing in conjunction with the Cultural Center's current exhibit, Ioway Here to Stay," the website states.

The Ioway: Here to Stay Art Exhibit reflects past and present artwork showing how the Ioway culture has progressed, changed, and has been influenced through time. 

Learn about the tribe, their name, lifestyle, relocation, struggles with assimilation, and their revitalization. Vibrant contemporary art demonstrates the resilience of a colorful culture and celebrates that Native people are still here. Open now until February 2023.

The event and exhibit are made possible by the Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission, the Potawatomi Tribe, the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska, the Cray Foundation, and the Atchison Art Council.

To purchase Fourth Wall Films' award-winning Lost Nation: The Ioway DVD series, click HERE!

Baxoje Fall Encampment set for Sept. 16-18

The Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska's Annual Fall Encampment is September 16-18, 2022 in White Cloud, Kansas.  The event draws people from all over the country to celebrate dance, culture and heritage.

The pow wow begins Friday evening, September 16 with Camp Night. 7 p.m. a potluck will take place at the Cook Shack. After sunset, a screening of the documentary Kiss the Ground will take place on the pow wow grounds (Bring your own chair).

Saturday, September 17 Registration opens at 10 a.m. Gourd dancing begins at 11 a.m. Following the noon lunch break, the Grand Entry will take place at 1 p.m.

Registration will close at 5 p.m. and the supper break will begin. Gourd dancing begins at 6 p.m. Grand Entry is at 7 p.m. The Princess and Jr. Princess contest will take place during the evening.

Sunday, September 18 Registration opens at 11 a.m. and Gourd Dancing begins. Registration will close at noon during the lunch break. Grand Entry will take place at 1 p.m.

For more information, visit https://www.iowatribeofkansasandnebraska.com/

To purchase Fourth Wall Films' award-winning Lost Nation: The Ioway DVD series, click HERE!

Nation-Wide Civic Season Features "Lost Nation: The Ioway" Indian Boarding School Segment

It's year two for #CivicSeason and once again Fourth Wall Films joins the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, First Americans Museum, Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, the Putnam Museum, and more than 300 organizations nation-wide to celebrate what it means to be an American citizen.

A clip from the award-winning "Lost Nation: The Ioway 2" (the series) is featured! Click HERE to view.

Sarah James and Annie Assefa from the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska visit Genoa U.S. Indian Boarding School in Nebraska

"The Civic Season will be held each summer from Juneteenth through July 4th, a time to turbo-charge our democracy with micro-actions from learning to service."

To purchase or stream Fourth Wall Films' award-winning Lost Nation: The Ioway DVD series, click HERE!

Mae Murray Sine Walks On

 

We are deeply saddened by the recent passing of our friend Mae Murry Sine. We had the privilege of interviewing Mae for "Lost Nation: The Ioway 1" in 2006, and again in 2012 for Parts 2 & 3. We are very grateful for her wisdom and kind counsel as we produced these documentary films. She cared deeply for her people and their ways, and was an unceasing advocate for the history and culture of the Ioway people.

 

Mae Murray Sine (second from the left) and others attend a showing of "Lost Nation: The Ioway 2 & 3" in Miami, Oklahoma in December 2013.

 

Mae's official obituary: https://strodefh.com/book-of-memories/4826178/Sine-Mae/obituary.php

 

Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma Loses Their Eldest Member, Mae Murray Sine ÑíkigreMi (Where Waters Meet Woman), Bear Clan.

 

Iowa Tribal member Mae Murray Sine passed away Tuesday, January 11, 2022, at the age of 92. Funeral services will begin at 11:00 a.m. Friday, January 14, 2022 at the Strode Funeral Home Chapel in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Interment will follow at the Iowa Tribal Cemetery in Perkins.

 

Mae was born in Poteau, Oklahoma to Franklin M and Martha McGlashin Murray on September 5, 1929. She married Riley “Papa” Sine in Stillwater and was a tribal leader. As a member of the Native American Church, she was in service to others and enjoyed growing beautiful flowers.

 

She was raised in Ioway Indian Country. The Ioway traditional, spiritual, and cultural values instilled in her early childhood provided points of reference, balance and harmony in our way of life.

 

Mrs. Sine comes from a family of Tribal leaders. Her interest and contributions have been in Tribal government, and the interest and welfare of the Ioway People. Her six elected terms of Office to the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma Business Committee has provided her the opportunity to serve her people. In 2002, during an interview, she was quoted as saying:

“Our traditional ways, cultural values and spirituality has given us strength and created a balance and harmony in our way of life. The Iowa people had a traditional and social structure of understanding, respect, compassion, humility, caring and generosity for one another. Some may say the tradition is of times past, and that is right for them. For others it is the oral history of who we are as Iowa people. To disregard these teachings could lead to the disorder of the balance and harmony. The language is almost extinct. Eventually, we may become a society with no power and authority.”

 

Mrs. Sine was an active participant in strategic planning efforts of Iowa Tribal business programs, and in developing educational, health, cultural, and Tribal Assistance Programs.

In 1977, she assisted her father, Franklin M. Murray in preparing his Ioway language classes and booklet titled “IOWA TRIBE OF OKLAHOMA LANGUAGE.”

 

In the “Year of the Indian 1992” she was one of Native American Indian women recognized by the State of Oklahoma and was presented a Citation of Recognition for “Indian women who serve as elected tribal officials in tribal government.”

 

In addition, Mrs. Sine was selected as the first Iowa Tribal woman to receive a Medal of recognition in 2009 at the 1st Annual AARP American Indian Elder Honorees banquet.

Survivors include children Jackie Nell Young-Daugherty, Rickford Ross Sine (Kaye) and Gabrielle Sine; nephews Perri Ahhaitty, Frank J Murray; niece Donna Murray Reichanbac; grandchildren Patrick Rosse Daughtery (Tracy); great granddaughter Paige Riley Daugherty; and adopted daughter Jill Primeax-Hunter.

 

Serving as pallbearers will be Patrick Daugherty, Perri Ahhaitty, Frankie Jo Murray, Curtis Washington, Eagle McClellan, and Deon Joseph. Honorary pallbearers are Rickford Sine and Elwood McClellan, Jr.

 

The family would like to express their appreciation and thanks to friends, Strode Funeral Home and the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma for their care and concern during this difficult time. And a special thank you to sister Noel Gover and niece Ashlee Jacobsen.

"Ioway 3" screens during Arkhaios Film Festival Oct. 5-11

Lost Nation: The Ioway 3--from the 3-part award-winning film series Lost Nation: The Ioway 1, 2 & 3 (2013) produced by Fourth Wall Films--will screen out-of-competition at the upcoming virtual edition of the 8th Annual Arkhaios Cultural Heritage & Archaeology Film Festival in South Carolina October 5th-11th. 

The FREE film festival is open to the public and will be held online this year due to COVID-19.  To find out how to view the film festival Official Selections and the side-bar films, including Ioway 3, visit https://arkhaiosfilmfestival2020.eventive.org/films. Pre-Registration will start by the 26th of September.

"Arkhaios is a free festival, juried competition, presenting films from around the world, half of them for the first time in the USA," states the website.

Ioway director Kelly Rundle served as the film festival Jury President, and helped coordinate the selection of this year's award-winners.  A Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania version of the film festival will also be held online this year.  

A Forgotten Tale of American Conquest and Native Survival

Lost Nation: The Ioway 1 (1700-1836) & Lost Nation: The Ioway 2 (1837-1878) screened previously at the Arkhaios Cultural Heritage & Archaeology Film Festival in South Carolina in competition.

Lost Nation: Ioway 3 (1879-1970s)
As two separate Nations, the Ioway entered the 20th century amid American Indian policies aimed at Native American assimilation. From the Ghost Dance to the American Indian Movement, the Ioway experienced cultural disintegration and rebirth.  Successful land claims in the 1970s propelled both tribes toward greater self-determination and a revival of time-honored Native traditions. (56 min) Click HERE to view the film at the film festival October 5-11, 2020.

To purchase Fourth Wall Films' award-winning Lost Nation: The Ioway DVD series, click HERE!

Quad-Cities Filmmakers Celebrate Two Festival Honors

By Sean Leary
QuadCities.com

Tammy and Kelly Rundle of Fourth Wall Films have a pair of honors to celebrate today.

Early yesterday, the duo of area filmmakers found out their feature, “Sons and Daughters of Thunder,” was an official selection of the 2020 Iowa Independent Film Festival. Last night, they found out their film “Good Earth: Awakening the Silent City” was accepted to the 2020 Denali Film Festival in Denali, Alaska.

Read the rest of the story at QuadCities.com.

Kelly & Tammy Rundle of Fourth Wall Films are the producers of multiple award-winning historical documentaries including the Lost Nation: The Ioway series, and the Mid-America Emmy® nominated documentaries Good Earth: Awakening the Silent City, Country School: One Room – One Nation, River to River: Iowa's Forgotten Highway 6 and Letters Home to Hero Street (with WQPT-PBS). 

To purchase Fourth Wall Films' award-winning Lost Nation: The Ioway DVD series, click HERE!

"Good Earth" Official Selection at Alaska's Denali Film Festival

The Emmy-nominated and award-winning documentary short Good Earth: Awakening the Silent City, produced by Kelly Rundle and Tammy Rundle of Fourth Wall Films, is an Official Selection at the 2020 Denali Film Festival in Denali National Park, Alaska.

The Good Earth site was a thriving trading and cultural center in Iowa and South Dakota and was occupied between 1500 and 1725 by ancestors of the present-day Ioway, Omaha, Ponca, and Otoe people, making it one of the largest long-term habitation sites in the United States. It is considered a sacred site.

The film shows daily at the Good Earth State Park Visitor Center located in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

The Denali Film Festival awards will be announced in July and the 2020 film selections will screen at the 2021 festival due to COVID-19.

Congratulations to the Ioway project participants: Tribal Elder Pete Fee (actor), Lance Foster (interviewee/consultant), Reuben Ironhorse-Kent (artist/actor/interviewee); to the project participants from the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma, the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska, the Otoe-Missouria Tribe, the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska; archaeologist Dale Henning; Jim Henning and the representatives of Good Earth State Park; and to the outstanding film crew members, cast, and everyone involved in this special project.

Two short scenes/shots from Good Earth: Awakening the Silent City appear in this new Denali Film Festival trailer. Our Native American friends (including two Ioway Tribe members) around a fire (:30) and "sunset at Good Earth" animation by Grasshorse Studios (1:04).  

Kelly & Tammy Rundle of Fourth Wall Films are the producers of multiple award-winning historical documentaries including the Lost Nation: The Ioway series, and the Mid-America Emmy® nominated documentaries Good Earth: Awakening the Silent City, Country School: One Room – One Nation, River to River: Iowa's Forgotten Highway 6 and Letters Home to Hero Street (with WQPT-PBS). 

To purchase Fourth Wall Films' award-winning Lost Nation: The Ioway DVD series, click HERE!

CANCELLED - Winter Stories Festival at Effigy Mounds National Monument

Art by Reuben Ironhorse-Kent.

The Winter Stories Festival at Effigy Mounds National Monument with Ioway artist, activist and musician Reuben Ironhorse-Kent has been cancelled.  

From the Effigy Mounds website: "In line with similar sized events in our local communities, Effigy Mounds National Monument is indefinitely postponing all events in our Winter Stories festival. This includes this weekend's presentation by Reuben Iron-Horse Kent, "Ioway Images Then and Now" scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, at 1:00pm.

The Visitor Center and hiking trails remain open. The Visitor Center is open from 9-4. Hiking trails are open from dawn to dusk.  Please direct all questions to the Visitor Center at 563-873-3491."

Kelly & Tammy Rundle of Fourth Wall Films are the producers of multiple award-winning historical documentaries and the Mid-America Emmy® nominated documentaries Good Earth: Awakening the Silent City, Country School: One Room – One Nation, River to River: Iowa's Forgotten Highway 6 and Letters Home to Hero Street (with WQPT-PBS). 

To purchase Fourth Wall Films' award-winning Lost Nation: The Ioway DVD series, click HERE!

"Ioway" films move audiences; Winter Stories continue at Effigy Mounds through March 29th

The Lost Nation: The Ioway three-part film series screenings at the Winter Stories at Effigy Mounds National Monument was a great success with full audiences on both days of presentations.  Lively Q&A sessions with filmmakers Kelly and Tammy Rundle took place following each film.  It was the first time all three films screened together. 

Park Ranger Jessica Pope, Chief of Interpretation and Resource Education at Effigy Mounds, arranged and organized the special winter program. Winter Stories is funded by BeWildReWild, a project of the Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation.

"Effigy Mounds was the perfect setting in which to share the Lost Nation: The Ioway films," said producer Tammy Rundle. "The audiences were visibly moved by the story of the Ioway.  We could not have been more pleased with the response."

“The mounds at Effigy Mounds National Monument are not only the resting place of their ancestors but represent a physical manifestation of the resiliency of the Ioway and all the indigenous people whose ancestors rest here,” Jim Nepstad, Superintendent of Effigy Mounds National Monument, said.

Winter Stories at Effigy Mounds National Monument is an exploration of American Indian storytelling rooted in the tradition that stories are told after the first frost and before the first thunder.  Winter is a quiet time for reflection and remembering; storytelling opens the door. 

Winter Stories at Effigy Mounds Schedule:

“Ho-Chunk Oral Stories: Are They Still Relevant Today?”

Saturday, February 29, 2020
1:00pm – 3:00pm
Bill Quakenbush, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer, Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin

Ioway Images Then and Now

March 14, 2020
1:00pm – 3:00pm
Reuben Ironhorse-Kent, Artist, Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska

March 15, 2020
1:00pm – 3:00pm
Reuben Ironhorse-Kent, Artist, Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska

Honoring Tribal Legacies

March 21, 2020
1:00pm – 3:00pm
Thunder Revolution Studios, Justin Deegan, filmmaker

Ioway Storytelling

March 22, 2020
1:00pm – 3:00pm
Lance Foster, Vice-Chairman Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska

The Burial

March 28, 2020
1:00pm
Jack Meggars

March 29, 2020
1:00pm
Jack Meggars

BeWildReWild is a loosely-knit group of volunteers with a passion for wild things. It is also a special fund within Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation for the purpose of exploring three questions: What do you/we mean by wild? What lifestyle changes are needed for us to live within the bounds of sustainability? How can we create a wilder, more beautiful, more biologically diverse, and a more enduring Mississippi River Watershed? And at bewildrewild.org it is a place for visioning, debating, storytelling, teaching, and learning.

Kelly & Tammy Rundle of Fourth Wall Films are the producers of multiple award-winning historical documentaries and the Mid-America Emmy® nominated documentaries Good Earth: Awakening the Silent City, Country School: One Room – One Nation, River to River: Iowa's Forgotten Highway 6 and Letters Home to Hero Street (with WQPT-PBS). 

All events will take place in the Effigy Mounds National Monument Visitor Center auditorium,  151 Highway 76, Harpers Ferry Iowa.  For more information contact the park at 563-873-3491. Lost Nation: The Ioway 1, 2&3 DVDs are available for purchase at the Effigy Mounds gift shop.

To purchase Fourth Wall Films' award-winning Lost Nation: The Ioway DVD series, click HERE!