Having won the right to attend public school, she went on to earn credentials as a special education teacher and taught for over forty years.
[10][11] Her sister Winona would also grow up to be an educator[12] and her brother Morris Tabbyyetchy (Sunrise) would become one of the World War II Comanche code talkers.
[7] After teaching for almost a decade on reservations in Arizona and New Mexico, such as at the Tohono O'odham Indian School near Tucson and the Tohatchi Boarding School on the Navajo Reservation, Lorentino moved to Oregon and enrolled in a master's degree program for special education from the University of Oregon.
[14] Earning her master's degree in 1947, Lorentino then taught in the Tillamook Educational System[9] before transferring to the Santiam Central School of Albany, Oregon.
[7][19] Lorentino died on August 4, 2005, at her home in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and was buried at the Post Oak Cemetery in Indiahoma, Oklahoma.
[9] In 1924, the language of her judgment was also incorporated into the Indian Citizenship Act, which guaranteed access to public schooling to all Native American children.