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This chapter focuses on familial risk factors that create vulnerability and impair recovery from violence for Indigenous women. Findings reveal the following identified risk factors that are connected to settler colonial historical oppression: (a) family division that occurs when family members form adversarial, unsupportive, and destructive relationships with each other that tended to perpetuate dysfunction and potentially violence; (b) intergenerational patterns of parental impairments, including alcohol abuse and disrupted parent–child bonds, which was also linked with parents’ absence due to death or abdicating responsibilities. These concepts are connected to a context of historical oppression, which perpetuates social problems over time (portions of this chapter reprinted from the accepted version of the manuscript originally published in Burnette, C. E. (2016). Historical oppression and Indigenous families: Uncovering potential risk factors for Indigenous families touched by violence. Family Relations, 65(2), 354–368. https://doi.org/10.1111/fare.12191. Copyright © 2016 National Council on Family Relations).
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Portions of this chapter were reprinted from the accepted version of the manuscript originally published in Burnette, C. E. (2016). Historical oppression and Indigenous families: Uncovering potential risk factors for Indigenous families touched by violence. Family Relations, 65(2), 354–368. https://doi.org/10.1111/fare.12191. Copyright © 2016 National Council on Family Relations.
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McKinley, C.E. (2023). How Historical Oppression Undermines Families and Drives Risk for Violence. In: Understanding Indigenous Gender Relations and Violence. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18583-0_7
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