Kelly and Tammy
Rundle of Fourth Wall Films, producers of the award-winning historical
documentaries Country School: One Room-One Nation, Villisca: Living with a
Mystery and Lost Nation: The Ioway have turned their cameras once again on the
tribe for which the state of Iowa is named. Through their fiscal sponsor Kansas
Public Telecommunications Service, Inc. (KPTS-PBS), the documentary sequel
project Lost Nation: The Ioway 2&3 was awarded a grant from the
Kansas Humanities Council (KHC). The sequels will continue where Lost Nation:
The Ioway left off with two new films.
When the Ioway are forcibly
removed from their ancestral homelands in 1838 to a reservation in Northeast
Kansas, Ioway leader White Cloud (The Younger) believes his people must
relocate to survive. But intermarriage, broken treaties, and the end of communal
living leads to a split in 1878 and the establishment of a second Ioway tribe
in Oklahoma. Both tribes endure hardship and challenges to their traditions and
culture to achieve successful land claims and self-determination in the1970s. Lost
Nation: The Iowa 2&3 brings the Ioway story full circle.
The Ioway join other American
Indians, historians, anthropologists and archaeologists to tell the dramatic
and true story of the small tribe that once claimed the territory between the
Missouri and Mississippi Rivers from Pipestone, Minnesota to St. Louis.
The Rundles began shooting Ioway
2&3 in the fall of 2010 in Oklahoma and Kansas. The KHC grant will partially fund production
in Kansas and interviews with scholar/historian Greg Olson and Ioway Tribal Elder Emil Campbell. Lost Nation: The Ioway 2&3 will be
released in 2012, with public television broadcasts and a DVD release to
follow. An alternative soundtrack in the nearly extinct Ioway language will be
offered on the DVD. The films are being
translated into the Ioway language by Baxoje-Jiwere linguist Jimm Goodtracks.
The Kansas Humanities Council
is a non-profit cultural organization promoting understanding of the history,
traditions, and ideas that shape our lives and build communities.
KPTS is a publicly-owned television
station that educates, engages, entertains and enriches Kansans and viewers of
all ages and in all walks of life by illuminating the challenges faced by
society and presenting civilization's highest achievements.
Fourth Wall
Films is an award-winning film and video production and distribution company
formerly based in Los Angeles and now located in the Quad-Cities.
