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Transcript: Jonathon Ross

Your culture and your heritage has a lot to do with your health

[Ross:]
Your culture and your heritage has a lot to do with your health, and in a lot of ways for a lot of different reasons in Alaska, there has been a decline of the current generation and coming generations knowing, understanding, valuing their culture, and I think that has had a profound impact on peoples’ health—their self-esteem being one of the main things there. I think the trend is reversing, though, slowly over time. People are understanding that there is value in their culture, in their heritage.