"[3] In the 1960s and 1970s, she and sister Virginia Stroud were instrumental in the revival of ledger art, a Plains Indian narrative pictorial style on paper or muslin.
[3] Samuel attended the Hampton Institute in Virginia and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania.
[3] She studied art under Southern Cheyenne artist Dick West at Bacone College in Muskogee, Oklahoma, from 1963 to 1965.
Due to the lack of acceptance for women artists in her area and nationally, she exhibited under the name Ahtone Harjo.
This painting is one of the only historical records of the annual ceremonial Sun Dance in which the entire tribe participated.