Achieving the shared goal of healthy, vibrant FNIM communities requires a shift away from conventional population health data about FNIM to data that illuminates the strengths and perspectives of wellness within FNIM communities (National Collaborating Centre for FNIM Health 2021). Strength-based Indigenous models of health and wellbeing are virtually non-existent within public health and medical research (Bryant et al., 2021, O’Keefe et al., 2022; O’Keefe 2023). This paper offers an important starting point to fill this void and provides a background of Indigenous conceptualizations of health and wellness and important strength-based determinants of health that need to be recognized, measured, and actioned to ensure healthy FNIM communities.