Warriors Off The Res: Aboriginal Gangs in Winnipeg

all my brothers, they are all male members, you know what I mean, that scares me down the road because I don't know how to teach my son right from wrong because I myself don't know right from wrong, you know what I mean, like myself, I don't even know right from wrong, but I don't know, although I don't want to show my son that way of life. My son will still know what's going on. He will know what I am. He will know what we are. And wouldn't you know, that's how we do it here. Canada was successful for the most part.

The destruction of Aboriginal cultural traditions and identity and the legacy of colonization has only replaced them with poverty and violence in the inner city, with the closing of the last residential school in 1996, the memory of segregation still is fresh in their minds and unless the government does something to address it. Racialized poverty in gang culture in Winnipeg's urban environments will continue to erode the Aboriginal community from within.