Club Native
- Synopsis
- In Kahnawake, the hometown of Mohawk director Tracey Deer (Mohawk Girls), there are two unspoken rules: Don’t marry a non-Native, and never, ever have a child with a non-Native. In a community where tribal membership rests on the equivocal measurement of blood quantum (literally the measurement of blood "purity"), following one’s heart requires risking one’s Mohawk status, as well as one’s family and community.
With warmth, intelligence and humor, Deer turns her camera on her own family and the lives of four proud Mohawk women deeply impacted by racism and prejudice rooted in Canada’s highly discriminatory 1876 Indian Act, and exacerbated by lingering preconceptions about blood quantum that have left a divisive legacy in her community.
Club Native raises critical questions about belonging and idigenity, the heartbreak of "marrying out" of the Mohawk Nation, and the unjust patriarchal laws that disenfranchise Native women. It is a candid and engrossing work about the pain, confusion, and frustration suffered by many First Nations women, but also a testament to the triumph of love and the resilience of the human spirit. The official website can be accessed at: http://films.nfb.ca/club-native/ - Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Year of release
- 2009
- Subjects
- Anthropology; Women’s studies
- Keywords
- caste system; Indians of North & South America; marriage customs; racial identity
Credits
- Director
- Tracey Deer
- Writer
- Tracey Deer
Distribution Formats
- Type
- DVD
- Format
- Region 0 NTSC
- Price
- $295.00 (institutional rate);
- Availability
- Sale
- Duration/Size
- 78 minutes
- Year
- 2009
Production Company
- Name
National Film Board of Canada
- customerservice@nfb.ca
- Web
- http://www.nfb.ca External site opens in new window
- Phone
- (514) 283 9000
- Fax
- (514) 283-7564
- Address
- Sales and Customer Service (D-10)
PO Box 6100
Station Centre-Ville
Montreal
QC H3C 3HS
Canada
Distributor
- Name
Women Make Movies Inc
- info@wmm.com
- Web
- http://www.wmm.com External site opens in new window
- Phone
- +1 212 925 0606
- Fax
- +1 212 925 2052
- Address
- 462 Broadway
Suite 500WS (at Grand Street)
New York
NY 10013
USA - Notes
- US company distributing independent films by and about women. The collection consists of more than 500 documentary, experimental, animation, dramatic and mixed-genre titles. The films and videotapes represent a diversity of styles, subjects and perspectives in women’s lives.
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