The Last Prairie
A Film by John O’Keefe
The Last Prairie is a film about the Nebraska Sandhills, a vast grassland in Nebraska. Its 20,000 square miles comprise the largest area of stabilized sand dunes in the Western Hemisphere and it has been recently described as the most intact temperate grassland on earth.
The film offers an intimate portrait of the Sandhills, presented through voices of three different communities: ecologists who study the region’s biodiversity; people who live and work there; and Native Lakota people whose ancestors were killed to make way for American westward expansion. The Sandhills, however, is the main character, and the primary voice.
Screenings:
January 17, 2024, 6:30 PM, Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH - Kennedy Auditorium
November 1, 2023, 5 PM, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
April 18, 2023, 5 PM, Creighton University, Omaha, NE - Harper Center Hixon Lied Auditorium.
April 7, 2023, 7:00 PM at The Willa Cather Center, Red Cloud, NE
March 30, 2023, 5:30 PM at The Center for Great Plains Studies, Lincoln, NE
March 2, 2023, 5 PM at Hot Shops Art Center, Omaha, NE
January 25, 2023, 6:00 pm, TriFaith Omaha, hosted by Countryside Community Church
October 8, 2022, 3:25 pm, Seward Nebraska at the Flatwater Film Festival
June 11, 2002, 1 pm at The Most Unlikely Place in Lewellen, Nebraska
June 9, 2022, 7 pm at The World Theatre, 2318 Central Ave. in downtown Kearney, Nebraska