Decolonizing Approaches to Indigenous Suicide

The chapter explores the structural underpinnings of Native suicide, highlighting the connection to settler colonialism and historical events like displacements and damming rivers. It delves into personal experiences with suicide and the need for a politically engaged and structurally reflective approach to address the issue. Emphasizing the importance of reframing the discourse around indigenous suicide from a critical, indigenous studies perspective, it challenges the prevalent deficit model and historical trauma framing.