Despite being married with children, Dahteste took part in raiding parties with her first husband Ahnandia.

Dahteste was fluent in English and acted as messenger and translator for the Apache.

[1] She spent eight years as prisoner of war at Fort Marion in St. Augustine in Florida, where she survived pneumonia and tuberculosis.

[example needed][3] After nineteen years of imprisonment at Fort Sill, Dahteste lived out the rest of her life at Whitetail on the Mescalero Apache Reservation in New Mexico.

She married a former Apache Scout named Kuni, dressed traditionally and refused to speak English.