[1] In 1990, Cote graduated from the Saskatchewan Indian Federated College with a degree in linguistics with distinction.

[3][5] In 1968, Cote began working with the Pelly Indian Agency office at the age of seventeen.

[1] She also participated in the translation of four stories for CD-ROMs by Pebble Beach Interactive Fiction Inc. for Saskatchewan Education.

She eventually mentored her niece, Lynn Cote, to continue her work in preserving the language.

[3] Cote strongly believed in the importance of preserving First Nations languages and recorded 17 elders for the purposes of transcribing and translating as many narrative categories as possible.

[1] Before she died, Cote was engaged to Andy Pascal and the couple planned to wed when the COVID-19 pandemic subsided.