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The settler invasion is a zombie apocalypse: Michael Truscello, Renae Watchman, ‘Blood Quantum and Fourth Cinema: Post- and Paracolonial Zombies’, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 2022

27Jan22

Excerpt: Sheriff Traylor did not make it out alive, and his story adds to the continuum of Indigenous stories that will be told to his grandchildren and to their grandchildren and seven generations into the future. Traylor is played by Plains Cree actor Michael Greyeyes in the 2019 zombie film Blood Quantum,
written and directed by Jeff Barnaby, who is Mi’gMaq. Traylor, as a “fullblooded” Mi’gMaq, was immune to the zombie plague, but he could no longer hold the door, behind which were infected zombies. Traylor sacrifices himself for his family’s survival. The zombies ultimately bite chunks out of his neck and disembowel him. Though Traylor is violently murdered, his soonto-born grandchild symbolizes indigenous futures not premised on blood quantum, and it continues the legacy of Indigenous stories and storytelling.


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