“Borders” examines the limitations on mobility derived from unrecognized indigenous sovereignty. The story is recounted from the perspective of an adolescent (with little authority), who had never been exposed to such cultural impediments before. He views the unfolding situation from the vantage point which he understood at the time – the prism of a mother-daughter conflict that led to his sister leaving home. However, with further attention to the details of his mother’s internal conflict, the adolescent narrator is revealed as an unreliable one. The underlying mother-daughter tension appears to be as much (if not more), about the inevitability of imposed border restrictions. The story reveals how claiming First Nations citizenship limits the mother’s mobility at both the US and Canadian borders. Holding a citizenship which is systemically unrecognized in border control processes of both countries renders her and her son stateless for two days (135-144). The first few paragraphs of the story succinctly show the family’s relational dynamics and the conditions under which Laetitia left home, which had since become a source of pride …