Ironwood Films

Ironwood Films is a Lakota-operated fledgling media company based in Kansas producing progressive, mixed genre films that are provocative and proactive. The primary mission of Ironwood Films is to explore and promote tribal and cultural issues through educational video and film from a Native point of view. Tribal nations of the Missouri River basin are fighting to protect ancestral burials and other cultural places from destruction, desecration, and exploitation by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, other state and federal agencies, and everyday people. MNI SOSE, Ironwood Films’ current project, shows how the 70-year reign of federal dam control and exploitation of river resources by the Omaha District of the United States Army Corps of Engineers and their failure to communicate with tribal nations has devastated tribal autonomy. The film also shows how lands were lost through the congressional movement of tribal boundaries and what happens when development, looting, and riverbank erosion exposes burial grounds and other culturally sensitive areas.