Since Europeans first began to arrive on Turtle Island over 500 years ago, Indigenous people have and continue to be the targets of settler and state violence. In this book, the author explores Indigenous people and societies in the pre-, early-, and post contact era. Readers will gain a better understanding of the various forms of violence in which Indigenous people have and continue to be the targets of which today, has resulted in the crisis of missing and murdered; overrepresentation in the child welfare, homelessness and criminal justice systems; extreme poverty; and, high suicide rates.