She is a mother, grandmother and great grandmother. To be an active participator of community and school matters has been a fulfilled dreams of hers. Lena has dedicated her life to the survival of the Blackfoot language through teaching it and writing books for the language. Her newest project is writing a text book for the grade 8 at the high school on the Blood Reserve. She says that writing these books is to preserve the language, but she also feels that this is not enough, she hopes to educate the people into taking the language into the homes as well.