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This chapter traces fictional representations of the ongoing plight of Indigenous mothers and fathers across Turtle Island (North America) and within Canada who are impacted by intergenerational trauma consequent to settler colonialism. Foregrounding poverty, racism, misogyny, and institutional neglect, Maracle’s (2002) and Vermette’s (2021) novels explore topics like single motherhood, maternal loss through death or child apprehension by the state, and ‘unfit’—especially criminalized—mothering, as well as fatherhood and dominative and non-dominative masculinities. Engaging with a growing body of scholarship in the interdisciplinary fields of Indigenous, motherhood, criminology, and masculinity studies, Podnieks documents how the two authors advance socio-pedagogical conversations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities today. The chapter highlights that the restoration of Indigenous parent-child bonds requires the recovery of and recommitment to Indigenous histories, identities, and communities.

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“We need to have our babies on our side of the line”: Indigenous Parenting, Intergenerational Trauma, and Familial Power in Lee Maracle’s Daughters are Forever and Katherena Vermette’s The Strangers

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    2025年

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  • Elizabeth Podnieks

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This chapter traces fictional representations of the ongoing plight of Indigenous mothers and fathers across Turtle Island (North America) and within Canada who are impacted by intergenerational trauma consequent to settler colonialism. Foregrounding poverty, racism, misogyny, and institutional neglect, Maracle’s (2002) and Vermette’s (2021) novels explore topics like single motherhood, maternal loss through death or child apprehension by the state, and ‘unfit’—especially criminalized—mothering, as well as fatherhood and dominative and non-dominative masculinities. Engaging with a growing body of scholarship in the interdisciplinary fields of Indigenous, motherhood, criminology, and masculinity studies, Podnieks documents how the two authors advance socio-pedagogical conversations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities today. The chapter highlights that the restoration of Indigenous parent-child bonds requires the recovery of and recommitment to Indigenous histories, identities, and communities.