Anderson, Bryce2020-08-252020-08-252020-08-25http://hdl.handle.net/10222/79713Colonialism has long impacted the health of Indigenous peoples in Canada and has had an unquestionable relationship with Indigenous suicide rates. In this thesis I hypothesized that contrary to popular conceptions, forms of colonialism still exist today in Canadian society, perhaps providing barriers to achieving maximally effective suicide prevention and support for Indigenous peoples. I used content analysis to examine existing depictions, common themes, and models of understanding of Indigenous suicide across private media and state-created Indigenous suicide prevention policies in Canada. Both private media and suicide prevention policy were found to be mainly focused on promoting a western, biomedical conception of wellness and mental health, thus forcing Indigenous peoples to conform to one homogeneous way of healing and understanding suicide. I argue that this lack of conceptual malleability is incongruent with the particularity that the phenomenon of suicide demands.enSuicideIndigenous StudiesAnthropologyContent AnalysisThesis