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These histories of subjugation by outsiders have yielded catastrophic impacts on Indigenous health and well-being, including marked inequities in health status. Specifically, Indigenous communities often suffer from disproportionately high rates of infant and maternal mortality, infectious diseases, parasite loads, diseases of forced acculturation (such as diabetes and hypertension), exposure to environmental contaminants, and stark anomic health conditions (such as addiction, violence, suicide). Even in the comparably wealthy nations of the USA and Canada, Indigenous health inequities persist. It is common to attribute Indigenous health inequities to poverty and despair; and yet, for most Indigenous Peoples, these disparities result from harms that were deliberately engineered by others. Repair for colonial legacies of poor health within Indigenous communities will require adequately funded healthcare, robust social services, and the eradication of poverty. 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