WQPT-PBS will air the award-winning three-part documentary series Lost Nation: The Ioway 1, 2 & 3 produced by Kelly and Tammy Rundle of Fourth Wall Films and their Emmy-nominated documentary short Good Earth: Awakening the Silent City. WQPT-Quad Cities PBS will broadcast the films in Illinois and Iowa as part of National Native American Heritage Month.
Lost Nation: The Ioway 1 airs on WQPT on Tuesday, November 6, 11 p.m.
Lost Nation: The Ioway 2 airs on WQPT on Tuesday, November 13, 11 p.m.
Lost Nation: The Ioway 3 airs on WQPT on Tuesday, November 20, 11 p.m.
Part 1 ~ 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.
Part 2 & 3 ~ 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.
Good Earth: Awakening the Silent City airs on WQPT on Thursday, November 15 at 10:30 p.m.
Good Earth: Awakening the Silent City presents the fascinating and forgotten story of the Blood Run National Historic Landmark as told by a Native American grandfather to his grandchildren. Produced in 4K, the documentary combines vivid present-day views of the park's scenic vistas and wildlife with dramatic historical reenactments portraying daily life in the year 1650. The film was produced for South Dakota's newest State Park, Good Earth at Blood Run near Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The Good Earth site in Iowa and South Dakota was occupied between 1500 and 1725 by ancestors of the present-day Ioway, Omaha, Ponca and Oto tribes, making it one of the oldest long-term habitation sites in the United States. At its peak around 1650, the site was home to 6,000-10,000 residents--more than Boston (2,000) and New York (New Amsterdam-1,000) in that same year.
Fourth Wall Films is an Emmy® nominated and award-winning independent film and video production company formerly located in Los Angeles, and now based in Moline, Illinois. Fourth Wall Films focuses on telling Midwestern stories through historical documentary films that reach viewers via PBS broadcasts, theaters, film festivals, national DVD release and online streaming.
To purchase Fourth Wall Films' award-winning Lost Nation: The Ioway DVD series, click HERE!
