Absolutely. I think it's impossible to speak about health without recognizing everything that goes into health. Health isn't just being healthy. It's having access to safe housing. It's having access to a safe environment. It's access to water. It's so many different things.
In relation to community, when a community doesn't have those things, how can its health possibly thrive? As Ms. Idlout was alluding to, when someone has to leave, that makes a big dent in the community. I was speaking before about how you have to leave your children at home sometimes when you're just having a baby. It's something that is pretty normal, but it disrupts not only your life, but the entire community's life.
I would also like to highlight that health typically isn't as individualized for indigenous folks. It's the community, and you thrive off of your community and what is going on in your community. When one person is ill, the community rallies around. It's not just that he, she or they have diabetes. The whole community comes around.
I would say health is absolutely critical to creating a well-woven community.