Lost Nation: The Ioway

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In 1824, during the twilight of Native American dominion, two conflicted Ioway leaders met with William Clark (of Lewis and Clark) to sign a momentous treaty. White Cloud (Mahaska) saw cooperation as survival for his people, while Great Walker (Moanahonga) regretted the loss of their ancestral homeland.  This pivotal moment led both men to different tragic destinies in their battle with epic change.

Lost Nation: The Ioway tells 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.  What was a quest for survival in the past, has become a struggle to retain a unique Native American culture and language in the present.

The bonus feature-packed DVD includes the 57-minute award-winning documentary, an alternative in the nearly extinct Ioway language, known as Báxoje (bah-kho’-jay), and a 10-minute version for young children!

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Ioway Tribal Elder Emil Campbell Takes His Honor Flight

Emil Campbell, Germany 1944. (Photo courtesy Emil Campbell/Billie Exposito--All rights reserved.)

Accompanied by his daughter Billie Campbell Exposito, Ioway Tribal Elder Emil Campbell, from the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska, got up early on Wednesday morning, November 7, 2012 to board a plane at the Kansas City Airport.  He joined 28 other WWII veterans from Kansas City and Wichita to take the final Honor Flight of the year to Washington D.C.

Emil was among those who fought in the Battle of the Bulge and his memories of losing Ioway friends during WWII run deep.

Ioway Tribal Elder Emil Campbell (Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska) appeared in the award-winning documentary "Lost Nation: The Ioway" by Kelly and Tammy Rundle of Fourth Wall Films. Emil will appear in the sequels "Ioway 2&3" premiering in early 2013. (Photo Fourth Wall Films, All rights reserved.)

The veterans will visit Ft. McHenry in Baltimore, the World War II Memorial, the Lincoln Memorial, the Vietnam Wall Memorial, the Smithsonian Museum and Arlington National Cemetery.

According to its website, the mission and goal of the Honor Flight Network is: "to transport America's veterans to Washington D.C. to visit those memorials dedicated to honor their service and sacrifices.  Since America felt it was important to build a memorial to the service and the ultimate sacrifice of her veterans, the Honor Flight Network believes it's equally important that they actually get to visit and experience their memorial  The Honor Flight Network is dedicated to helping every single veteran in America, willing and able of getting on a plane or a bus, visit their memorial."  Visit www.HonorFlight.org for more information.

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Premiere Date Changed for "Lost Nation: The Ioway 2&3" to Early 2013

The Museum of Natural History at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa will host the premiere of the sequels "Lost Nation: The Ioway 2&3".

After three years in production the new documentary sequels Lost Nation: The Ioway 2&3 plans for the premiere at the Museum of Natural History at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa are in the works.  Arrangements have been changed to premiere the new films in late January or early February 2013.

A special preview screening of the films will take place at the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska in White Cloud, Kansas on Monday, December 17 at 6:00 p.m.  Arrangements for a December showing in Oklahoma are also in the planning stages.  (More details to follow.)

The unforgettable story of the Ioway people continues where the award-winning Lost Nation: The Ioway left off in two new documentary 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, artists, musicians, 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.

Emmy-nominated filmmakers Tammy and Kelly Rundle of Fourth Wall Films began production on Ioway 2&3 in the fall of 2010 in Oklahoma and Kansas.  Filming continued in Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska, Missouri, Wisconsin, South Dakota, Montana and New Mexico. 

Lost Nation: The Ioway 2&3 will premiere in early 2013 at the University of Iowa Museum of Natural History, MacBride Hall, Iowa City, Iowa.  Q&A with the filmmakers and other film participants will follow the screening.  A special museum exhibit will be part of the special event. The premiere will be free and open to the public. 

More screenings of the films are being scheduled throughout the Midwest.  The DVD is slated for release in early 2013 and will contain an alternative soundtrack in the nearly extinct Ioway language.  PBS broadcasts will follow later in 2013.

Lost Nation: The Ioway 2&3 received partial funding from Humanities Iowa, the Kansas Humanities Council, the Oklahoma Humanities Council, the Nebraska Humanities Council, the South Dakota Humanities Council, the Wisconsin Humanities Council, the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma, the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska, and Silos and Smokestacks National Heritage Area.