This article questions whether Marshall’s wrongful conviction in 1971 and the Supreme Court of Canada’s 1999 Marshall decisions could inform contemporary discussions on racialized surveillance and policing in relation to Indigenous bodies and the unceded territories they occupy. This article is one of the first to use the decisions as a springboard for analysis of the largely detrimental function of policing in Indigenous communities. It draws from film studies, critical policing studies, Indigenous and decolonial studies, and adopts a case study approach to probe policing in criminal justice and natural resource settings.