She has also added her voice to Indigenous Futurism, a movement among Native artists and authors to write science fiction from their historical and cultural perspectives.

[5] After graduating from Pleasant Grove High School in Texarkana, Texas, Little Badger adopted her current surname, as per Lipan tradition.

[5] She attended Princeton University in New Jersey, where she earned a bachelor's degree in Geosciences after being rejected twice from the school's creative writing program.

[4][5] Little Badger graduated cum laude in 2010[6] and was honored by her department with the Arthur F. Buddington Award for Overall Excellence as an undergraduate student.

She wrote her dissertation on the genomics of Karenia brevis, a species of plankton that causes toxic red tide in the Gulf of Mexico.

For example, two Apache sisters reunite in "Whalebone Parrot"[10] (The Dark Magazine, 2017), a Victorian horror story set in the late 19th century on an island in the Atlantic.

[14] The story is set in modern-day Texas; the main character Ellie is a seventeen-year-old asexual Lipan Apache teen.

[4] The story focuses on Nina, a Lipan Apache girl trying to learn about her recently deceased grandmother, who meets a cottonmouth snake named Oli.

"[23] the main characters are a Navajo interplanetary ship's captain and a Lipan Apache veterinarian accompanying 40 chihuahuas on their way to forever homes on Mars.

During the ceremony, Little Badger used her knowledge as a geoscientist to express her Lipan people’s "endurance and strength" through their connection to the land and rocks around the burial site.