Bibliographic record
Abstract
The recent media focus on unmarked graves at former residential schools throughout Canada has brought fresh discussion of the particular role played by these institutions in the physical and cultural genocide of First Nations peoples. Yet, beyond the residential schools, the shattering of intergenerational ties has been pursued with purpose through manifold attacks on women, mothers, and children, as well as through the suppression of broader communities of care. This article provides a condensed overview of the institutionalized violence targeting First Nations women and children, supporting the notion that, in this context, mothering and care work become intrinsic modes of resistance to genocide. The article goes on to examine cinematic representations that contribute to decolonizing Indigenous motherhood. While important recent work by “relève autochtone” filmmakers pays tribute to strong Indigenous mothers, this article first looks at the roots of this decolonial turn in First Nations’ maternal representation, returning to the corpus of Alanis Obomsawin. It then analyzes two relève autochtone films, Mohawk filmmaker Sonia Bonspille Boileau’s Le Dep (2015) and Chloé Leriche’s Avant les rues (2016), arguing that, while these films may at first seem in some ways complicit with settler stereotypes, they ultimately present a broader, empowering understanding of mothering and care in First Nations communities.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".