List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Note to Instructors Teaching Material that Challenges In the Classroom Introduction and Purpose: Understanding and Reducing Injustice 1. Introduction to Indigenous Peoples in Canada 2. Introduction to an Indigenous Perspective: Ideology and Teachings 3. Indigenous Governance and Methods of Addressing Crime 4. Historical and Contemporary Colonialism 5. Canadian Legal History: Interpretation of Indigenous Treaties and Rights 6. Indigenous Peoples and the State: Legal Manipulation and Indian Legislation 7. The Impact of Assimilation: Residential Schools and Intergenerational Trauma 8.

Crime Affecting Indigenous Peoples: Over-Representation, Explanations, and Risk Factors 9. Violence Affecting Indigenous Women: Struggle, Sexualization, and Subjugation 10. The Real Criminals: Government and Corporate Priorities and Their Failure to Follow Agreements 11. Modern Agreements and Land Claims: The Government's Desire for "Economic Certainty" 12. Euro-Canadian "Justice" Systems and Traditional Indigenous Justice 13. Moving Forward: Lighting the Eighth Fire Notes Index.