Cinema Politica (McGill) is screening Tracey Deer’s Club Native on January 18th
Date: Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Time: 6:30pm – 9:30pm
Location: Leacock 26, 855 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal, Quebec H3A 2T7
CLUB NATIVE
Tracey Deer / Canada / 2008 / 78 min
“Club Native is a candid and deeply moving look at the pain, confusion and frustration suffered by many First Nations people as they struggle for the most important right of all: the right to belong.
On the Mohawk reserve of Kahnawake, located just outside the city of Montreal, Canada, there are two firm but unspoken rules drummed into every member of the community: Do not marry a white person and do not have a child with a white person. The potential consequences of ignoring these rules-loss of membership on the reserve, for yourself and your child-are clear, and for those who incur them, devastating. Break the rules, and you also risk being perceived as having betrayed the Mohawk Nation by diluting the “purity” of the bloodline.
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. Following the stories of four women, she reveals the exclusionary attitudes that divide the community and many others like it across Canada. Deer traces the roots of the problem, from the advent of the highly discriminatory Indian Act through the controversy of Bill C31, up to the present day, where membership on the reserve is determined by a council of Mohawk elders, whose rulings often appear inconsistent. And with her own home as a poignant case study, she raises a difficult question faced by people of many ethnicities across the world: What roles do bloodline and culture play in determining identity?”
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rPi1RG3m1Q
Cinema Politica (McGill) website: http://www.cinemapolitica.org/mcgill
McGill Aboriginal Health Interest Group presents: Welcome Back Meeting and Movie Night!
Date: Wedneday, January 19, 2011
Time: 5:00-6:30pm
Location: First Peoples’ House of McGill 3505 Peel Street Montreal, Quebec
“Come one, come all!
5pm Meeting + Snacks!
5:30pm Movie: “Qallunaat: Why White People are Funny” + remaining
snacks!
It’s a new year for AHIG and we’re inviting you to contribute to our
upcoming events, especially the planning of the second annual Cultural
Competency in Aboriginal Health Training Workshop, to be held in the
spring. This workshop will focus on preparing med students for rural
family med rotations in Canada’s North. The event was a stunning
success in 2010 and we’re looking for your input and collaboration.
Come on down to the meeting and share with us your thoughts for the
workshop as well as other events this spring!”