Indigenous Life Promotion focuses on the well-being and quality of life of Indigenous peoples, recognizing that health and wellness are shaped by distinct cultural, historical, and societal contexts.

Indigenous Life Promotion empowers communities to reclaim their well-being by drawing on cultural strengths, relationship with the land, traditions, and knowledge systems.

Through ceremonial practices and Indigenous ways of knowing, it addresses the root impacts of colonization, oppression and discrimination - shifting the paradigm toward cultural continuity as a protective factor and supporting community sovereignty.

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Life promotion is not about indigenizing suicide prevention and having access to another Nations traditions and practices of connecting to Spirit, because you have to believe in your own way of life and your own relationship.

We are at a time when we must collectively acknowledge the distress of the earth and the people. We need to figure out how we as humans came to make such horrific decisions for our selves and the earth that sustains us.

(Elder Gertie Beaucage)