The ethnohistorical record is rich in demonstrating the Indigenous practice of games and gambling in the past in Canada before the onset of colonialism. Games and gambling were integral to ceremonies, inter-group relations, and leisure activities. The impact of gambling and its associated losses and gains were part and parcel of Indigenous societies. The emergence of colonialism in Canada led to land dispossession and assimilation strategies via Treaties, the Indian Act, and Residential Schools and currently manifests through ongoing child apprehension and passive and active violence. Contiguous Indigenous assertions of rights coupled with national (Truth and Reconciliation of Canada) and global (United Nations Declaration of Indigenous Rights) confront the state (provincial and federal) colonial status quo and offer a decolonial present and future in Indigenous games and gambling as a right and pathway to decolonizing state relationships with Indigenous societies. The focus in this presentation is the Indigenous perspective on gaming. It draws upon the First Nations context of historic gaming and casino narratives in the present. I engage with the work of critical Indigenous gambling studies that recognize the inclusivity of Indigenous Knowledge within and beyond disciplinary gambling studies, while also being inclusive of multidisciplinary approaches such as Indigenous Studies, archaeology, anthropology, and Indigenous narratives. Within a broader context, an Indigenous critical gambling studies approach is combined with a two-row wampum Indigenous gambling paradigm, as articulated by the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake. This concept figures prominently within their national context in relation to settler stakeholders. Though other Canadian First Nations rightsholders do not explicitly reference two-row wampum, the foundation of First Nations voices is equivalent, as expressed through the themes of Indigenous sovereignty, Treaties, history, and the right to Indigenous gaming. Case studies profile the experiences of the Onkwehonwe (Mohawk), Anishinaabe (Ojibwa), Neyiyawak (Plains Cree), and Nakota (Assiniboine).