Cover title. Issued also in French under title: Des collectivités en bonne santé mentale : points de vue autochtones. Distributed by the Government of Canada Depository Services Program.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction -- All my relations -- Reflections on mental wellness in First Nations and Inuit communities -- Ancestral law and community mental health -- Polar bears and fireweed -- Mentally healthy communities: the complexities of diversity -- Can a community be called "mentally healthy"? Maybe, but only when the whole really is greater than the sum of its parts.