Understanding the four capacities of self would be helpful in developing from bad Mental Health issues to good ones. In the Article Sharing One Skin by Jeanette Armstrong, Armstrong talks about her Okanagan community and how they include the four selves in their Okanagan Community. The four selves include Physical self, Emotional Self, Thinking-intellectual self, and Spiritual self. Physical self is when an individual has interactions with community members and continues to have these interactions, but they don't isolate themself from others. Emotional self is when a community member does not just involve themselves physically but also ties their well-being as a person to their traditions. Thinking-intellectual self is the spark in your mind that lights every time you do something you are passionate about, the spark lights every time you do that one thing. Spiritual self is a step to making your whole body conscious and connecting to your surroundings. That makes you your true self. “I fear that without my land and my people I am not alive. I am simply flesh waiting to die. (Armstrong  468)”

Many people don’t know or understand how stories and memories are connected to our lands. In the article "How Place Names Impact the Way We See Our Landscape" by B. Tosie, Tosie explains how Indigenous people and other people see the lands differently. Indigenous people have ties to their land dating back hundreds of years and over time, they get to know the land as we grow with it. We take care of the land, we use the land for good and don't abuse but use them in the way they are supposed to. Other people see these lands as what the colonists changed them to. Once the names of these lands are changed, over time the stories will fade away and we will lose the true stories of the lands. One major thing that other people saw was the land as land that they could make money off of.

 Schooling is a big subject when it comes to Native American education. In the article And Then I Went to School, Joe Suina talks about how his community gets stripped from him by the boarding schools. At first, education was good for Suina because he was able to be with his community while at school. Once Suina started getting older he was taught to stop being his true self and assimilate with the new world. Suina soon realized that he didn't want his Indigenous life anymore, instead he wanted American life. When Suina reunited with his family after being at the boarding school for a while, he remembered what it was like to be a community member. No matter how many times Suina went back and forward from home and school, he just wanted to be home and young once again.

 Some Mental health issues can be developed through past generations and get carried to new generations. The article Breathing the Air of Their Ancestors by Shawn Clark gives readers an insight into how Indigenous youth feel connected at school. I think this relates to my SHP topic because school is a major factor that affects the mental health of the youth, it could either be in a good or bad way. Especially when Clark stated, “ The lasting impacts of forcing Native American Children into boarding schools manifests in elevated dropout rates, poor academic achievements, and increased mental health struggles, (136)”. Being forced into school was hard for our ancestors, and the generations to see what they went through made many others not attend school.

 Suicide is a major problem in Indigenous communities. In the article Educational competencies that are endorsed by Indigenous Mental health experts related to the assessment of suicide by Kellylynn Zuni, she states “For instance, access to mental health care has been a known disparity for tribal communities, (16)”. This is most likely one of the main reasons why the youth choose to keep these factors of suicide locked inside and not want to share how they are feeling Mentally. Some things may happen to an individual that may be hard to handle on their own. It is important to seek help because it might save your life.