She served on the Whiteclay Public Health Emergency Task Force to address alcohol sales and the violence associated with its consumption.
They successfully closed down liquor stores in Whiteclay, Nebraska and established networks between local, state, and tribal law enforcement agencies to increase reporting of violence and investigations into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.
She spearheaded a project to erect a sculpture of Standing Bear (Ponca) on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus, as well as at the National Statuary Hall in Washington, D. C. With excess funds raised for Standing Bear's sculpture, gaiashkibos had a statue installed of Susan La Flesche Picotte (Omaha) at the university.
Along with the Nebraska State Archeological Office she has led efforts to locate the burial sites of children who attended the Genoa Indian Industrial School.
The competition was part of the National Cherry Blossom Festival and judged finalists on character, creativeness, community involvement and scholastic achievement,[13] but Upton did not win the title or scholarship.
[1] In the early 1990s when her marriage broke down, Morgan returned to school to complete a bachelor's degree in human relations at Doan College.
In 1995, she was selected to replace Steven Provost, who had resigned from the position of executive director of the Nebraska Commission on Indian Affairs.
The Santee Sioux were intent upon opening a casino over the objections of the state, and the Winnebago tribe had threatened to boycott the Nebraska Indian Community College system.
[15] She was able to intercede with the Nebraska Legislature on the grounds of Santee tribal sovereignty and worked to successfully reconcile the Omaha and Winnebago leadership.
[19][20][21] In 2001, the couple participated in the United Nations World Conference against Racism in Durban, South Africa, arguing for discriminatory policies to be barred from legal codes and standing in favor of Indigenous rights and self-determination.
[22][24] Part of her role with the Whiteclay Public Health Emergency Task Force was to work with the Nebraska State Patrol and local and tribal law enforcement to improve reporting and investigation of missing and murdered Native women and family violence.
The Nebraska Department of Motor Vehicles sells the plates which promote cultural and historic awareness and returns 75% of the fee to the scholarship fund.
[30] In 2018, the state legislature passed a bill to replace the sculptures in the US Capitol of William Jennings Bryan and Sterling Morton with statues of Standing Bear and novelist Willa Cather.
[29] Standing Bear's statue was installed at Statuary Hall in 2019, with gaiashkibos's daughter, Katie Brossy, an attorney attending the ceremony.
[30] Gaiashkibos called on Victor for a third time in 2021 with a proposal to create a statue for Susan La Flesche Picotte (Omaha), the first Native woman to be credentialed as a physician in the US.
[38] The Nebraska State Archeological Office and gaiashkibos have led the efforts to find the burial grounds of the Genoa Industrial School which operated from 1884 to 1934.