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“Direct Descendant” Documenting Disenrollment In The Penobscot Nation, Mary L. Hamilton
“Direct Descendant” Documenting Disenrollment In The Penobscot Nation, Mary L. Hamilton
Honors College
A documentary in its beginning stages, Direct Descendant (Spring 2016) is the product of the research carried out and captured on film by a direct descendent of an active member of the Penobscot Nation, as she addresses issues she has personally faced in regards to her disenrollment from the Penobscot Tribe. Driven by the personal narrative of a dissenrolled daughter of a Native American, the film follows its protagonist on the emotional journey she embarked on to foster the understanding of repercussions that follow a Native American tribe that disenrolls members at a blood quantum of 1/4. As a rough …