When you look back to the times when hardship fell on First Nations with respect to education, treaties and the justice system, what you will find written in this essay is a comparison with what was then and what is now. The world of First Nation treaties challenges ignorance of oral history, how treaties were upheld but not respected, and common understandings between the Canadian government and Aboriginal law. Ignorance is how the oral history of First Nations has been ignored and forgotten. Oral history states that land was meant to be shared and not given away; it cannot be bought or sold. First Nations were placed on the land as guardians. The government ignored this oral agreement and entered into a written agreement stating that the First Nations “ceded and surrendered” the land, depriving them of their rights to it. It has only been in the present day that the treaties have been recognized, orally and in writing. First Nations voices are finally being heard about their land, but negotiations are still ongoing to try to repair the damage that was done when oral history was ignored, but it is still a low priority for the government. Secondly, I will talk about First Nations education in residential schools, modern education, and how First Nations lost their identity in the residential school system. The residential schools were funded by the federal government and operated by various churches. Residential schools removed First Nations children from their homes and forced them into a school system that had lower standards of education than non-Aboriginal schools. First Nations children were stripped of their identity once they arrived at school and were taught the “proper Christian” lifestyle, not that of their… middle of paper… turn would be treated a little more severely than today's justice system. Today's justice systems are a little more complex when it comes to addressing these issues due to racism issues of the past. When justice systems today try to decide punishment, many factors are taken into consideration to avoid problems with capital punishment. But as a final prospect from the crown's point of view, capital punishment is unacceptable because it requires the courts to take the final decision on someone's life into their own hands and has been abolished since 14 July 1976, except for certain circumstances relating to the act of national defense which was removed in 1998. To summarize the ideas represented in this essay, Aboriginal people in Canada were and still are, to some extent, victims of a predigested government..