Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Human to Human: A Poem Written for Pamela George

Chevelle Malcolm

Part I. Settler Colonialism and Canadian Criminal Justice in Context

1. Memoryscapes: Canadian Chattel Slavery, Gaslighting, and Carceral Phantom Pain

Viviane Saleh-Hanna

2. The Destruction of Families: Canadian Indian Residential Schools and the Refamilialization of Indigenous Children

Andrew Woolford

3. Walking on a Settler Road: Days in the Life of Colonialism

Clint Augustine McIntosh

4. Colonial Mythmaking in Canadian Police Museums on the Prairies

Kevin Walby and Justin Piché

5. Original Savages

Stands with the Wolves (Nolan Turcotte)

Part II. The Colonial Violence of Criminal Justice Operations

6. “You’re Reminded of Who You Are in Canada, Real Quick”: Racial Gendered Violence and the Politics of Redress

Carmela Murdocca

7. Clearing the Plains Continues: Settler Justice and the “Accidental” Murder of Colten Boushie

David B. MacDonald

8. Killing in the Name Of: Police Killings of Indigenous People in Canada

Jeff Shantz

9. Elders in Prison and Cycles of Abuse

Paul Hachey

10. Gendered Genocide: The Overincarceration of Indigenous Women and Girls

Pamela Palmater

Part III. The Bureaucratic Trappings of Colonial Justice

11. Moral Culpability and Addiction: Sentencing Decisions Two Decades After R. v. Gladue

Gillian Balfour

12. Cookie-Cutter Corrections: The Appearance of Scientific Rigour, the Assumption of Homogeneity, and the Fallacy of Division

Jeff Ewert

13. To Be Treated as Human: Federally Sentenced Women and the Struggle for Human Rights

Kim Pate

14. Earth and Spirit: Corrections Is Not Another Word for Healing

Charles Jamieson

15. Shit: A Poem Dedicated to All Incarcerated Sisters

El Jones

16. Incompatible or Congruent? Can Indigenous and Western Legal Systems Work Together?

Lorinda Riley

Part IV. Creative Resistances and Reimagining Settler-Colonial Justice

17. Countering the Legal Archive on the Death of Neil Stonechild: Analyzing David Garneau’s Evidence (2006) as an Aesthetic Archive

Josephine Savarese

18. Ethics of Representation / Ethics and Representation: Dads Doin’ Time, Incarcerated Indigenous Writers, and the Public Gaze

Jillian Baker

19. In the Name of the Native Brother and Sisterhood

James Delorme

20. Spirit of the Stolen: MMIWG2S+ People and Indigenous Grassroots Organizing

Vicki Chartrand

21. Critique’s Coloniality and Pluriversal Recognition: On the Care as the Ecological Ground of Justice

Mark Jackson

Conclusion

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