Her uncle was Adam Bordeaux,[3] a well known cultural educator and a revered spiritual leader on the Rosebud Reservation whom she describes as "a holy man with healing powers.
[7] She then earned a bachelor's degree from Evergreen State College in 1974[12] while living with her father[7] in Olympia, Washington with a major in community development.
On moving back to Olympia she became distanced from the Catholic Church and learned of the Baháʼí Faith from an Indian newspaper in the late 1970s.
This person felt her activities in the women's movement and seeking Indigenous rights and facing Stereotypes of Native Americans were divisive.
[13] In 1987 she participated in the 75th anniversary commemoration of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá's journeys to the West at the Baháʼí House of Worship in Wilmette, Illinois.
[5] She attended the 1988 Baháʼí Indigenous Council,[15] and the next tour of the Trail of Light team this time keeping a diary of events over the three weeks journey as they went through Latin America.
[16] She co-chaired the 1989 Association of Baháʼí Studies conference in Canada[17] and traveled to Finland to attend an indigenous event there for the Sami people.
[23] Shortly after 2001[1] she was elected to the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baháʼís of the United States and had to release her service as a counsellor.
[27] Professionally she took a stand on the importance of breastfeeding in 2005 as the Northern Plains Healthy Start Program project director when she brought in training for other agencies in Rapid City, SD.
In 2011 she opened sessions of the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin 40th Annual Meeting and National Health Conference.
In 2009 she was the keynote speaker at the Portland Mayor's Inter-faith Luncheon[47] attended the 2010 Association for Baháʼí Studies conference in Canada[48] and was interviewed for an hour for a podcast radio program.