Promotional art for Lost Nation: The Ioway 2&3.
The unforgettable story of the Ioway people continues where the award-winning Lost Nation: The Ioway left off in two new one-hour documentary films by Kelly and Tammy Rundle of Fourth Wall Films. The documentaries will be released in the fall of 2012.
When the Ioway are forcibly removed from their ancestral homelands 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 the 1970s. Lost Nation: The Ioway 2&3 brings the Ioway story full circle.
The Rundles went into production on the sequel project in March 2010 and filming will be completed in the Spring of 2012. Ioway 2&3 was shot in Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico and Oklahoma. Additional filming will take place in Montana and Wisconsin. The film will feature stories told by Ioway Tribal Elders and Tribal Members, as well as other Native Americans, historians, archaeologists and anthropologists.
The documentary project has been awarded grants by Humanities Iowa, The Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska, The Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma, The Kansas Humanities Council, The Nebraska Humanities Council, The Oklahoma Humanities Council, Silos and Smokestacks National Heritage Area and The Wisconsin Humanities Council.
Lost Nation: The Ioway 2&3 is slated for theatrical release during National Native American Heritage Month in 2012. A national DVD release (with an alternative soundtrack in the Ioway "Baxoje" language) is planned for 2013, with Midwestern-PBS broadcasts to follow.
Art: Notchimine by Charles Bird King, Thomas L. McKenney & James Hall. Used by permission, State Historical Society of Missouri, Columbia.
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