Quote:
"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." In Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women's Cinema, edited by Kay Armatage, Kass Banning, Brenda Longfellow, and Janine Marchessault. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. (p. 174)