Black Hawk State Historic Site in Rock Island, IL.
Kelly and Tammy Rundle of Fourth Wall
Films, producers of the Emmy® nominated documentary Country School: One
Room-One Nation and the award-winning Lost Nation: The Ioway 1 will showcase
their new documentaries Lost Nation: The Ioway 2 & 3 in a twin Quad Cities premiere
event at Black Hawk State Historic Site in Rock Island, Illinois at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 16, 2013, and at the Putnam Museum National Geographic Giant Screen at 6:30 p.m. in Davenport, Iowa on Sunday,
March 17.
Putnam Museum Giant Screen in Davenport, Iowa.
When the Ioway were forcibly removed from their
ancestral homeland of Iowa in 1837 to a reservation on the border of Nebraska
and Northeast Kansas, Ioway leader White Cloud (The Younger) believed his
people must relocate to survive. But
intermarriage, broken treaties and the end of communal living led to a split in
1878 and the establishment of a second Ioway tribe in Oklahoma. Both tribes endured hardship and challenges to
their traditions and culture to achieve successful land claims and
self-determination in the1970s. Lost
Nation: The Ioway 2 & 3 brings the dramatic Ioway story full circle.
“I believe all the tribes had their trail of tears,
said Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma Tribal Elder Joyce Big Soldier-Miller. “They all suffered--all those Indians who
made those treks away from their former homelands.”
“It’s always good to look at the past and remember
that it does affect the future,” said Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska tribal member
Reuben Ironhorse-Kent. “The ancestors
did the best they could with what they had.”
Ioway Elders and tribal members join other Native
scholars, historians, archaeologists and anthropologists 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 state of Iowa takes its name from the
Ioway Tribe.
The twin QCA premieres will feature the two 50-minute
documentaries Lost Nation: The Ioway 2&3 followed by Q&A with the
filmmakers and other film participants.
The presentation at Black Hawk State Historic Site, Watch Tower Lodge,
1510 46th Avenue, Rock Island, Illinois is FREE to the public and begins at 6:30 p.m. on
Saturday, March 16, 2013. The special
event at the Putnam Museum National Geographic Giant Screen, 1717 W. 12th,
Davenport, Iowa takes place at 6:30 p.m., Sunday, March 17, 2013. Tickets are
available at the box office for $7/pp. The
films contain mature themes and historical images that may be disturbing to
young children.
Ioway 2&3 will continue screening throughout
the U.S. and the two films will be released on a single full-featured DVD in April
2013. An alternative soundtrack in the
nearly extinct Ioway language will be offered on the DVD. Broadcasts on Midwestern PBS stations are
slated for 2013, beginning with WQPT-PBS.
For more information about the Lost Nation: The Ioway 2 & 3 visit www.IowayMovie.com.
Lost Nation: The Ioway 2&3 was partially funded
by grants from Humanities Iowa, and Silos and Smokestacks National Heritage
Area, as well as humanities councils in Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Wisconsin,
and South Dakota, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.