Club native how thick is your blood

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    1. Club native how thick is your blood

      2. How thick is your blood?

      In Club Native, filmmaker Tracey Deer uses Kahnawake, her hometown, as a lens to probe deeply into the history and contemporary reality of Aboriginal identity....

      Club Native: How Thick is Your Blood?



      Tracey Deer (Writer & Director). Linda Ludwick & Christina Fon (Producers).

      4 years ago more AGAINST THE CURRENT | A Short Documentary About the Culture of Indigenous People | BYkids.

    2. 4 years ago more AGAINST THE CURRENT | A Short Documentary About the Culture of Indigenous People | BYkids.
    3. Mohawk filmmaker, Tracey Deer, reveals the divisive legacy of more than a hundred years of discriminatory and sexist government policy.
    4. In Club Native, filmmaker Tracey Deer uses Kahnawake, her hometown, as a lens to probe deeply into the history and contemporary reality of Aboriginal identity.
    5. How thick is your blood?
    6. 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.

      7. Adam Symansky (NFB Producer). Ernest Webb & Catherine Bainbridge (Executive Producers). Ravida Din (NFB Executive Producer).
      Montreal, PQ: National Film Board of Canada, 2008.
      78 min., DVD, $99.95. Order Number 153E 9908 377.

      Subject Headings:
      Indigenous woman -Canada -Ethnic identity.

      The First Nation governance system produces a degree of dysfunction in governance that is unmatched in any other jurisdiction in Canada.


      Mohawk woman -Quebec (province) -Ethnic identity .

      Grades 11 and up / Ages 16 and up.

      Review by Joanne Peters.

      *** /4

        

      What does it mean to be �Indian within the meaning of the Indian Act, chapter 27, Statutes of Canada (1985)?� The four women on the front cover of this NFB production offer four different answers.

      Waneek Horn-Miller, former Olympic athlete, is proudly Mohawk; she holds a placard stating that she is �100% human.� Lauren Jiles, an articulate young performance arts student, is �50% Mohawk, 50% Black, and 100% proud.� Tiffany Deer, sister of Tracey Deer, the maker of the film, is 91.37% Mohawk, but then ask