Club Native

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| director = Tracey Deer

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| writer = Tracey Deer

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| narrator = Tracey Deer

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  • Mona Laviolette
  • Linda Ludwick

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| cinematography = Jeff Dorn

| editing = Carl Freed

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| released = {{Film date|2008|10|16|Canada}}

| runtime = 78 minutes

| country = Canada

| language = English

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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.{{cite news|url=https://www.nowtoronto.com/movies/story.cfm?content=165317&archive=28,6,2008|title=Club Native|last=Cole|first=Susan G.|accessdate=10 December 2010|newspaper=Now Magazine|date=October 8–15, 2008 |volume= 28|issue=6 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011085150/http://www.nowtoronto.com/movies/story.cfm?content=165317|archivedate=11 October 2008|url-status=dead}}{{cite news|url=http://hotdocsaudience.bside.com/2008/films/clubnative_hotdocs2008|title=Club Native|accessdate=10 December 2010|work=Hot Docs|date=17 April 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101219104619/http://hotdocsaudience.bside.com/2008/films/clubnative_hotdocs2008|archive-date=19 December 2010|url-status=dead}}

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.{{cite news|url=http://www2.canada.com/montrealgazette/columnists/story.html?id=f1c18a2b-f07d-4c7c-a1bc-d05d9c3ff069&p=2|title=Tracey Deer is shattering stereotypes|last=Griffin|first=John|date=December 5, 2009|work=Montreal Gazette|publisher=Canwest|accessdate=14 December 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120820051645/http://www2.canada.com/montrealgazette/columnists/story.html?id=f1c18a2b-f07d-4c7c-a1bc-d05d9c3ff069&p=2|archive-date=20 August 2012|url-status=dead}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/collection/film/?id=54548|title=Club Native|year=2008|work=Collection|publisher=National Film Board of Canada|accessdate=14 December 2009}}

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