Description of the excerpts from the film Mohawk Girls by Tracey Deer

The first scene opens onto a palisade surrounding a traditional Mohawk village. The camera shows an overview of the village, which is actually a model. We can see three longhouses. The inhabitants are figurines involved in daily life activities. A woman is grinding corn and carrying a baby on her back, a man carrying some kind of load, another holding a pot and a child standing near a longhouse.

The following scene contrasts with the scene of the traditional village, as we see a bird's-eye view of a large land area dotted with houses and modern buildings. The river is flowing in the distance. Then the camera pans an asphalt street lined with cars and houses. There is nobody on the sidewalks.

The following bird's-eye scene shows a line of cars crossing a long bridge over the river. Then the camera points towards a large city; Montreal, with the mountain seen from the left and the skyscrapers that do not exceed the mountain's height.

Returning to the modern Mohawk village, the camera takes us to the front of a two-storey house. Then we see a teenaged girl in pyjamas sitting with her legs crossed, on her bed. She shakes her foot and hands a bit and sits up straight while talking very excitedly. She stands up and leaves the scene while indicating that she will return.

Three feathers appear on the screen above the letter M of the film title "Mohawk Girls". The teenager returns, jumping onto the bed.

The following images show three teenaged girls speaking to the screen. The frame of the screen contains four small images on which the girls appear in turns, in medallions. The first three are in colour, indicating that they are contemporary. The fourth girl is the one sitting on her bed at the beginning. Her image is in black and white because she seems to have been filmed during the 1950s or '60s. Behind this girl, another makes "feathers" on her head, as a joke, by holding up two fingers in a V.