Able to avoid residential schooling, Klah learned traditional Navajo spirituality from their uncle, who was a medicine man.

[2] Klah was trained in healing ceremonies that involved dancing, chanting, singing, and sandpainting- the act of creating temporary designs on the ground using colored dirt and shells.

[2] Klah mastered multiple traditional art forms, most notably sandpainting and weaving (which they learned from their mother).

Klah wove their first complete weaving at the 1892–1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, where they were also probably part of a sandpainting demonstration.

[5] The colorful and intricate designs caught the eye of various art collectors, many of which purchased Klah's work.

Klah went on to demonstrate sandpainting in 1934, at the Century of Progress Exhibition in Chicago, of which President Franklin D. Roosevelt was in attendance.