Stereotypical thinking about Indigenous patients influences Indigenous patients experience with pain reporting. Pain can take many forms and creates multifaceted experiences for each person. Western medicine often focuses on “physical pain” without taking into account of how emotional pain may contribute - stress, perceptions, past experiences. Treating pain with pharmacological means should not be the primary focus in addressing pain - non pharmacological treatments can also address symptoms. Discussing pain history and acknowledging the influence of colonial factors on the pain experience of an Indigenous person is an important first step of the pain assessment.