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Transcript: Yvette Roubideaux, M.D.

Urban American Indians often lose their connection to their families

[Robideaux:]
For American Indian people in general families are critical, and to have your family around you is important, and that's what's so challenging for urban American Indians. When they move away from the reservation, they sometimes lose their connection to their family, and that affects their health, and it affects their wellbeing.