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In particular, the research featured in this collection is primarily situated on the Canadian prairies, a geographical location that is particularly imbued with land-based tensions that are entangled with nation-building narratives with a strong history of dispossessing Indigenous peoples, imposing health and social services as a means to control Indigenous communities (e.g. via Indian Residential Schools, Indian hospitals, etc.), but also a vibrant history of Indigenous resistance to systemic state repression. The first four chapters highlight the first arc which demonstrates the ways in which settler colonial logics and power relations are broadly systemic and produce subjects that both reproduce and resist colonial violence at home ("Living My Family Through Colonialism" by Verna St. Denis), in schools ("Toxic Encounters: What's Whiteness Doing in a Nice Field Like Education?" by Sheelah McLean), within the healthcare system ("How Indigenous-Specific Racism Is Coached into Health Systems" by Barry Lavallee and Laurie Harding) and criminal justice systems ("'Within this Architecture of Oppression, We Are a Vibrant Community': Indigenous Prairie Prisoner Organizing during COVID-19" by Nancy van Styvendale). The next arc is comprised of three chapters which elucidate how colonial violence is reproduced within "helper" identities, namely, white women ("Tracing the Harmful Patterns of White Settler Womanhood" by Willow Samara Allen), teachers ("Policing Indigenous Students: The School/Prison Nexus in the Canadian Prairies" by Amanda Gebhard), and police officers ("The Stories We Tell: Indigenous Women and Girls' Narratives on Police Violence" by Megan Scribe).