Club Native is a documentary that examines the present-day reality of Aboriginal identity.
With moving stories from a range of characters from her Kahnawake Reserve, Mohawk filmmaker, Tracey Deer, reveals the divisive legacy of more than a hundred years of discriminatory and sexist government policy to expose the lingering “blood quantum” ideals, snobby attitudes and outright racism that threaten to destroy the fabric of her community.

Format: 48, 52 and 75 minutes – Documentary – English and Mohawk
Director: Tracey Deer
Executive Producers: Catherine Bainbridge and Ernest Webb
Producers: Christina Fon and Linda Ludwick
Co-producer for the NFB: Adam Symansky
Broadcaster: APTN

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Awards

Gemini Awards 2009

WINNER Canada Award Best Canadian Multi-Cultural Program

WINNER Best Documentary Writing

Dreamspeakers Festival 2009

WINNER Best Canadian Film at the First Peoples' Festival

DOXA Documentary Film Festival 2009

WINNER Colin Low Award for Best Canadian Documentary