Citation :
« It is no exaggeration to say that Loyalties is one of the first
Canadian feature films to portray Natives, not as 'imaginary Indians,' but as
complex and contradictory characters who are given a progressive
narrative centrality. »
-- Brenda Longfellow
Source :
LONGFELLOW, Brenda. « Gender, Landscape, and Colonial
Allegories in The Far Shore, Loyalties, and Mouvements du désir »
,
dans Gendering the Nation: Canadian
Women's Cinema, sous la direction de Kay Armatage, Kass Banning, Brenda Longfellow et Janine Marchessault, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1999.
[en anglais] (p. 174)