Grounded in relational worldviews and ways of being, Kanyen’kehá:ka (Mohawk) health once thrived. However, colonization intentionally attempted to disrupt and delegitimize Indigenous relationships and connections with each other (and all of creation), having devastating impacts on Indigenous life and health. Today disparities in Indigenous health exist worldwide, including Canada. Making matters worse, Indigenous Peoples face multiple barriers to engagement in the spaces of western Canadian healthcare, including racism and the marginalization of Indigenous relational conceptions of health and ways of caring. Using Kanyen’kehá:ka relational methodology grounded in the Ohén:ton Karihwatéhkwen (Thanksgiving Address), we explored Kanyen’kehá:ka values and relationality between healthcare providers and clients when both are Kanyen’kehá:ka community members from the same territory, and how these ways of relating shape relationships and engagement in community-based healthcare. We identified three themes: Health is broadly defined and relational; connection is foundational to Kenhtè:ke (Tyendinaga) identity and ways of caring; and community relationships and connection foster more engagement in healthcare than otherwise in western care settings. These findings support the resurgence of community values and conceptions of health and care and demonstrate the potential of community-based healthcare. They provide validation, from community, for Indigenous healthcare providers working in their own communities who struggle between standards of professional practice and their own community values and ways of caring. They also have critical implications for western norms of healthcare professional training and practice and the need to include Indigenous relational ways of caring more generally.