During her service, while stationed in South Carolina, she met John W. Learned, who was serving in the United States Marine Corps.

Because votes for her were not counted in the results, she obtained an injunction from the federal district court to stop the elected delegates from Canton from sitting on the council.

[9] She served as tribal treasurer that year and Native Americans at the 50th Anniversary meeting of the US Department of Labor's Women's Division in Washington.

[6] With LaDonna Harris, Learned founded Oklahomans for Indian Opportunity, an organization aimed at addressing tribal poverty across the state.

[22] In 1990, she went to Washington, D.C., along with other tribal leaders, in an attempt to reclaim the land and facilities of Fort Reno, which had been vacated by the military in 1948 and transferred to the Department of Agriculture.

[23] The following year, she was named to serve on the board of the Oklahoma Institute of Indian Heritage, an organization formed to assist in the development of Native American tourism in the state.