The Lost Nation: The Ioway three-part film series screenings at the Winter Stories at Effigy Mounds National Monument was a great success with full audiences on both days of presentations. Lively Q&A sessions with filmmakers Kelly and Tammy Rundle took place following each film. It was the first time all three films screened together.
Park Ranger Jessica Pope, Chief of Interpretation and Resource Education at Effigy Mounds, arranged and organized the special winter program. Winter Stories is funded by BeWildReWild, a project of the Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation.
"Effigy Mounds was the perfect setting in which to share the Lost Nation: The Ioway films," said producer Tammy Rundle. "The audiences were visibly moved by the story of the Ioway. We could not have been more pleased with the response."
“The mounds at Effigy Mounds National Monument are not only the resting place of their ancestors but represent a physical manifestation of the resiliency of the Ioway and all the indigenous people whose ancestors rest here,” Jim Nepstad, Superintendent of Effigy Mounds National Monument, said.
Winter Stories at Effigy Mounds National Monument is an exploration of American Indian storytelling rooted in the tradition that stories are told after the first frost and before the first thunder. Winter is a quiet time for reflection and remembering; storytelling opens the door.
Winter Stories at Effigy Mounds Schedule:
“Ho-Chunk Oral Stories: Are They Still Relevant Today?”
Saturday, February 29, 2020
1:00pm – 3:00pm
Bill Quakenbush, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer, Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin
Ioway Images Then and Now
March 14, 2020
1:00pm – 3:00pm
Reuben Ironhorse-Kent, Artist, Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska
March 15, 2020
1:00pm – 3:00pm
Reuben Ironhorse-Kent, Artist, Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska
Honoring Tribal Legacies
March 21, 2020
1:00pm – 3:00pm
Thunder Revolution Studios, Justin Deegan, filmmaker
Ioway Storytelling
March 22, 2020
1:00pm – 3:00pm
Lance Foster, Vice-Chairman Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska
The Burial
March 28, 2020
1:00pm
Jack Meggars
March 29, 2020
1:00pm
Jack Meggars
BeWildReWild is a loosely-knit group of volunteers with a passion for wild things. It is also a special fund within Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation for the purpose of exploring three questions: What do you/we mean by wild? What lifestyle changes are needed for us to live within the bounds of sustainability? How can we create a wilder, more beautiful, more biologically diverse, and a more enduring Mississippi River Watershed? And at bewildrewild.org it is a place for visioning, debating, storytelling, teaching, and learning.
Kelly & Tammy Rundle of Fourth Wall Films are the producers of multiple award-winning historical documentaries and the Mid-America Emmy® nominated documentaries Good Earth: Awakening the Silent City, Country School: One Room – One Nation, River to River: Iowa's Forgotten Highway 6 and Letters Home to Hero Street (with WQPT-PBS).
All events will take place in the Effigy Mounds National Monument Visitor Center auditorium, 151 Highway 76, Harpers Ferry Iowa. For more information contact the park at 563-873-3491. Lost Nation: The Ioway 1, 2&3 DVDs are available for purchase at the Effigy Mounds gift shop.
To purchase Fourth Wall Films' award-winning Lost Nation: The Ioway DVD series, click HERE!
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