Posted: Apr 28, 2021 4:33 PM CT | Last Updated: April 28 Edward Snowshoe, top right, from Fort McPherson, N.W.T., died by suicide at Edmonton Institution, a maximum-security federal prison, after spending 162 days in segregation. Corrections officers say they were not aware of his three previous suicide attempts at a prison in Manitoba.(Effie Snowshoe) The family of a Gwich'in man who died by suicide after spending 162 days in segregation in federal prison is pursuing a wrongful death lawsuit against the federal government. Edward Snowshoe, of Fort McPherson, N.W.T., died in 2010 at the age of 24. He had been kept in isolation for 134 days at Manitoba's Stony Mountain Institution, just outside Winnipeg, before being transferred to the Edmonton Institution, where he spent a further 28 days in isolation until he died, says the statement of claim.