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Mohawk Girls

2005 1 h 2 min
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Shot over two years, Mohawk Girls provides a surprising inside look at modern Indigenous youth culture. Deeply emotional yet unsentimental, it reveals the hope, despair, heartache and promise of growing up Indigenous at the beginning of the 21st century.

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Shot over two years, Mohawk Girls provides a surprising inside look at modern Indigenous youth culture. Deeply emotional yet unsentimental, it reveals the hope, despair, heartache and promise of growing up Indigenous at the beginning of the 21st century.
  • writer
    Tracey Deer
  • director
    Tracey Deer
  • producer
    Joanne Robertson
    Linda Ludwick
    Christina Fon
    Adam Symansky
  • executive producer
    Catherine Bainbridge
    Ernest Webb
    Sally Bochner
  • director of photography
    Tracey Deer
  • additional camera
    Bill Kerrigan
    Alan Kohl
    Pablo Aravena
    Francis Miquet
    Alexandre Bussière
    Steve Bonspiel
  • sound
    Marco Fania
    Lynne Trépanier
  • additional sound
    Steve Bonspiel
    Tod Van Dyk
    Lisa Dargensio
    John Dee Delormier
  • narration
    Tracey Deer
  • editor
    Patricia Tassinari
  • additional editing
    Tracey Deer
    Simon Webb
  • logging
    Tiffany Deer
  • online editing
    Tony Manolikakis
  • sound edit
    Mona Laviolette
  • sound mix
    Bruno Bélanger
    Mona Laviolette
  • original music
    Mona Laviolette
    Linda Ludwick
  • accountant
    Linda Ludwick
  • producer assistant
    Megan Thorne
    Jacob Kent
  • production assistant
    Brian Webb
  • post-production assistant
    Jacob Kent
  • translation
    Claire Valade
    Natalie Dubois
    Anne-Marie Gauthier
  • additional translation
    Sonia Poisson
  • dialect coach
    Sonia Poisson
    Danielle Valade
  • consultant
    Mike Ryan
  • travel arrangements
    Beesum Communications
  • unit photographer
    Georges Khayat
    Tiffany Deer
  • insurance
    B.F. Lorenzetti
    Lucie Trottier
  • audit
    Rapp Hecht Heft
    Raymond Lamoureux
  • legal
    Danielle Dicaire

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Education

Ages 14 to 18
School subjects

Warnings: (some swearing: “fuck”). What have been the consequences of governmental attempts to define First Nations Peoples? What are the elements that define Kanienʼkehá꞉ka (Mohawk) identity? What is lateral violence and how is it reflected in this film? What is blood quantum and how can it affect identity, relationships and acceptance into a First Nations group? Who imposed blood quantum membership in a nation, and why was it forcibly imposed? What are the consequences of governmental attempts to define Indigenous Peoples? What does it mean to walk in two worlds when considering the contexts of the girls in this film? Consider the dynamics of growing up Indigenous in the 21st century.