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This Book is a combination of life writing and literary analysis of selectoral stories regarding the leadership role of the woman in Blackfoot culture. Idiscuss the leadership qualities of The Holy Woman, The Woman Chief/Warriorand The Blackfoot Woman Storyteller and the importance of these identities forcontemporary Piikani Women. I explain traditional Blackfoot women's roles bydescribing the connection between traditional women's roles, oral stories,ceremonies, Blackfoot language, and the land. A literary analysis and acomparison of the oral stories found in Percy Bullchild's The Sun Came Down:The History of The World as My Blackfeet Elders Told It, Beverley Hungry Wolf'sThe Ways of My Grandmothers, and Clark Wissler and D C Duvall's Mythology ofThe Blackfoot Indians will demonstrate archetypal women in leadership roles,and will show the origins of these traditional roles. The argument for this Book isto encourage Piikani women to return to traditional Blackfoot roles for thepurpose of establishing traditional Blackfoot leadership to balance powerbetween women and men; create healthy communities; and empower futuregenerations of Piikani Women leaders.

Social systems, such as schools, need prevention programs for suicide prevention. Youth are unaware of suicide and mental illness facts due to the lack of suicide prevention curricula inmiddle schools. Thus, this thesis was created for a suicide prevention curriculum. This curriculum is intended to educate youth aged 11-12 on the warning signs for suicide, to develop tools/skills to manage symptoms, and to raise awareness on where to seek help if they or someone they know are experiencing suicidal ideations. This curriculum aims to expose youth in middle school aged 11-12 to the warning signs for suicide attempts. This is to prevent and educate them to reduce the mumber of at-risk youths. This curriculum was created for a social worker or someone from a related field who has experience with youth and knowledge of mental health/mental illness and suicide.

Suicide loss and non-suicide loss impact thousands of people globally each year. Literature todate has identified ways suicide-loss can impact individuals and families in unique ways but hasnot indicated what specific aspects of family function are impacted for suicide-bereaved familymembers. Further, it is unclear whether family members can turn to each other to provide andreceive support after their loss. The purpose of this study was to understand how suicide loss ofa family member impacts individuals when compared to suicide loss of a non-family member.Additionally, this study aimed to understand how suicide loss of a family member impactsfamily dynamics on specific levels of communication, affect expression, affect connection, andgeneral family functioning when compared to non-suicide family member loss. Perceivedfamilial support was predicted to moderate the relationship between type of loss and these familyfunction variables. Participants (N = 174) filled out 4 self-report measures that assessed familyfunction prior to their loss, grief experiences, family communication, affect expression, affectconnection, and family function after their loss. An independent samples t-test and a hierarchicalmultiple regression with a moderation analysis were run to examine the relationships betweenthe predictor and outcome variables described above. When compared to individuals whoexperienced a non-family member suicide loss, individuals who experienced family membersuicide loss reported more intense grief experiences (p = .03) but did not report significantlydifferent family function. When compared to non-suicide family member loss, individuals who