Discusses how Aboriginal students confront narratives of colonial violence in the postsecondary classroom, while they are, at the same time, living and experiencing colonial violence on a daily basis. Basing her analysis on interviews with Aboriginal students, teachers and Elders, Cote-Meek deftly illustrates how colonization and its violence are not a distant experience, but one that is being negotiated every day in universities and colleges across Canada.

Setting the Context -- Conceptualizing the Impact of the Colonial Encounter -- Negotiating the Culture/Colonial Divide in the Postsecondary Classroom -- Negotiating Race in the Postsecondary -- Classroom -- Trauma in the Classroom -- Resisting Ongoing Racism and Colonialism in the Postsecondary Classroom -- Closing the Circle: The Possibilities for Transformational Pedagogy.