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Tracey Deer grew up on the Mohawk reserve of Kahnawake with two very firm but unspoken rules drummed into her by the collective force of the community. These rules were very simple and they carried severe repercussions: 1) Do not marry a white person, 2) Do not have a child with a white person.

The consequences of ignoring these rules were equally simple: 1) Lose all status as a Native person and, 2) Deny your unborn child their status as a Native person. The larger tragedy, of course, was that by breaking either of these rules, she would be depleting the growth of “the Nation” and, by extension, betraying everyone she loved.

In Club Native, Deer looks deeply into the history and present-day reality of Aboriginal identity. With moving stories from a range of characters from her Kahnawake Reserve - characters on both sides of the critical blood-quantum line - she reveals the divisive legacy of more than a hundred years of discriminatory and sexist government policy and reveals the lingering “blood quantum” ideals, snobby attitudes and outright racism that threaten to destroy the fabric of her community.

2008, 78 min 10 s

Club Native

Club Native - DVD

Canada Award
Gemini Awards
14 novembre 2009, Calgary - Canada

Meilleur documentaire
Annual Dreamspeakers / International Aboriginal Cultural, Artistic and Film Festival
Du 18 au 21 juin 2009, Edmonton - Canada

Mention honorifique pour le Prix Alanis Obomsawin pour le meilleur documentaire
Imagine Native Film + Media Arts Festival
Du 15 au 19 octobre 2008, Toronto - Canada

Prix Kodak/Vision globale pour le meilleur film canadien
Festival Présence Autochtone (Terres en Vues)
Du 11 au 22 juin 2008, Montréal - Canada

Prix Colin-Low du meilleur documentaire canadien- assorti d'une contribution de 3000$ sous forme de services techniques de l'ONF
Doxa - Documentary Film and Video Festival
Du 27 mai au 1 juin 2008, Vancouver - Canada