The Assembly of First Nations is the top rung of Indigenous governance. But behind closed doors, the AFN has been plagued by infighting and power struggles.

APTN Investigates looks at the challenges facing Indigenous governance, from pre-contact to today.

In 2015, two Mohawk fishermen drowned. Police claimed they were stealing fish, took too many and the boat sank.

Police didn't bother to test these claims.

So we did and used the same boat.

Life in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside has been devastating for people just trying to survive. Wars on the poor. Wars on drugs.

Crisis after crisis for the unhoused.

In their own words, residents tell APTN Investigates' Rob Smith their tales of survival.

The Manwin Hotel in Winnipeg has been a hub for drugs and violence. It was the scene of two homicides in the last year.

But with a lack of housing, it’s also become a last resort for the city’s vulnerable population.

Stanley Morris Peters was killed in a hit and run in 1987 near the community of Mount Currie B.C. and his body has never been found.

More than 35 years later, his family continues to search for answers — and believes someone knows what happened.

Members of a First Nation in Alberta say urgent action is needed to increase financial transparency in their community.

Court documents raise suspicions of how band money is spent, while Elders are forced off-reserve after their house is condemned.

A band council in the Fraser Valley has been found guilty of unlawfully denying band membership and writing themselves blank cheques.

Yet, council remains in power as elders die waiting for justice. Kenneth Jackson returns to a story he first broke in 2017.

A Saskatchewan government report on the Prince Albert Police is kept secret. Deaths mount at corrections facilities around town.

Christopher Read investigates policing and corrections in a community with a large Indigenous population — and a lot of jails, too.