Lost Nation: The Ioway

WQPT-PBS Broadcast Premieres "Ioway" Film Series March 26-28, 2013

WQPT-PBS will broadcast all three parts of the new documentary film series Lost Nation: The Ioway 1, 2 & 3 by Emmy-nominated Quad City filmmakers Kelly and Tammy Rundle March 26-28, 2013.  WQPT serves Eastern Iowa and Western Illinois.

Ioway 2&3 will continue screening throughout the U.S. and the two films will be released on a single full-featured DVD in May 2013.  An alternative soundtrack in the nearly extinct Ioway language will be offered on the DVD.  Broadcasts on Midwestern PBS stations will continue later in 2013.

WQPT-PBS Program Schedule:

Tuesday, March 26, 2013, 7:00 p.m., WQPT-PBS Broadcast of the award-winning documentary Lost Nation: The Ioway 1. (WQPT serves Eastern Iowa and Western Illinois)

Wednesday, March 27, 2013, 7:00 p.m., WQPT-PBS Broadcast Premiere (serving Eastern Iowa and Western Illinois) Broadcast Premiere of the critically-acclaimed documentary Lost Nation: The Ioway 2. The film contains mature themes and historical images that may be disturbing to young children. (WQPT serves Eastern Iowa and Western Illinois)

Thursday, March 28, 2013, 7:00 p.m., WQPT-PBS Broadcast Premiere of the critically-acclaimed documentary Lost Nation: The Ioway 3. The film contains mature themes and historical images that may be disturbing to young children. (WQPT serves Eastern Iowa and Western Illinois)

Ottumwa Bridge View Center Showcases "Lost Nation: The Ioway 2"

Bridge View Center in Ottumwa will screen Lost Nation: The Ioway 2 on March 24th, 2013.

A special screening of the critically-acclaimed documentary Lost Nation: The Ioway 2 will be presented at the beautiful Ottumwa Bridge View Center, 102 Church Street, Ottumwa, Iowa on Sunday, March 24, 2013 at 2:00 p.m.  Emmy®-nominated filmmakers Tammy and Kelly Rundle will take part in a discussion following the screening.

The unforgettable story of the Ioway people continues where the award-winning Lost Nation: The Ioway 1 left off in two new documentary films.  

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.

Film critic Linda Cook of the Quad City Times gave 4-out-of-4-stars to Lost Nation: The Ioway 2&3 and said: "You are bound to be moved by these beautiful films...The Rundles expertly capture the oral history, the people you won’t soon forget and their past that must not be forgotten."

The event is sponsored by the Ottumwa Area Arts Council and is free to the public.  Lost Nation: The Ioway 3 will show at a later date.  The films contain mature themes and historical images that may be disturbing to young children.

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.

Twin QCA Premieres of "Lost Nation: The Ioway 2&3" at Black Hawk State Historic Site and Putnam Museum Giant Screen

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.

Filmmakers Present Award-winning Documentary Film on Ioway Indians at Pipestone Performing Arts Center

Pipestone Performing Arts Center in Pipestone, MN will show IOWAY 1.

A forgotten story of American conquest and Native survival comes to light when the award-winning documentary film, “Lost Nation: The Ioway,” is featured Saturday, March 9, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. at the Pipestone Performing Arts Center, 104 E. Main, Pipestone, MN.  Emmy®-nominated film producers Kelly and Tammy Rundle will appear for Q&A following the screening.

From the creators of the critically-acclaimed documentary “Country School: One Room – One Nation,” “Lost Nation: The Ioway” explores the dramatic saga of the Ioway from their ancestors – known as the Oneota – to their present day locations in Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma.

"Pipestone is the perfect place in which to bring the story of the Ioway," said producer Tammy Rundle.  "The Ioway have a direct connection to the pipestone quarries at Pipestone National Monument."

Ioway Tribal Elders join historians to tell the epic 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.

Film critic Linda Cook of the Quad City Times gave “Lost Nation: The Ioway” 4-out-of-4 stars and said “The Rundle’s “Ioway” is perfectly complete… A fantastic documentary… You don’t have to be a history buff to enjoy this film.”

Movie reviewer Mike Schulz of the River Cities Reader wrote “Absolutely outstanding.  “Lost Nation: The Ioway” is fantastically informative, beautifully constructed, and thoroughly enjoyable…”

“Lost Nation: The Ioway” will screen on Saturday, March 9, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. at the Pipestone Performing Arts Center in Pipestone, MN.  Items related to Ioway culture and the making of the film will also be on display.  This special program is sponsored by the Pipestone County Museum and is funded in part by a grant from United Way.  The program is free.