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Club Native
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'Club Native' is a 2008 documentary film by Tracey Deer, exploring Mohawk identity, community and tribal blood quantum laws. The film looks at how women in Deer's home community of Kahnawake risk losing their right to live on the reserve, after marrying non-natives.
The film received the Canada Award from the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television for best Canadian multi-cultural program and a Gemini Award for best documentary writing. 'Club Native' also received the award for Best Documentary at the Dreamspeakers Festival in Edmonton, the award for Best Canadian Film at the First Peoples' Festival and the Colin Low Award for Best Canadian Documentary at the DOXA Documentary Film Festival. The film was co-produced by Rezolution Pictures and the National Film Board of Canada.
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Category:2008 films
Category:National Film Board of Canada documentaries
Category:Documentary films about First Nations
Category:Documentary films about Indigenous rights in Canada
Category:Canada Award-winning shows
Category:Mohawk-language films
Category:Documentary films about women
Category:Films directed by Tracey Deer
Category:Rezolution Pictures films
Category:Women in Quebec
Category:2000s Canadian films
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