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This course explores some of the complicated historical, cultural, legal and political relationships among First Nations Peoples, including Metis and Inuit, with law enforcement in Canada. It begins with introducing students to some of the rich diversity of First Nations Peoples and cultures, their various experiences of colonization and racism and their entanglement in the legal and political structures of Canada from European contact to the present day. It looks at some of the examples of this entanglement - from the criminalization of cultural practices to disputes and expropriation over land to resistance (violent and non-violent) over non-Native authority - shape the policing of First Nations communities and their experience in the criminal justice system (CJS).