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.