Her experience with alcoholism and as a victim of prejudice and child abuse is expressed in the theme of struggle and healing in her work.

[4] She started her working career as a legal secretary and began writing around age 50 when she was a contributor to the Native American Renaissance.

Her final years were spent in a poor, inner-city neighborhood in San Francisco, where she co-founded the Tenderloin Women Writers Workshop.

Because of a decision by the village council, Tallmountain's younger brother stayed, and she was given to the government doctors white family, the Randles.

[3] After TallMountain moved to Reno, Nevada, and trained and worked as a legal secretary she began to drink to deal with her struggles in the past.

[8] The Rasmussen Library at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks houses an archival collection of TallMountain's published and unpublished works.

A Quick Brush of Wings, SF, Freedom Voices/ Red Star, Black Rose, 1991: A collection of 23 poems and 3 chapters from unpublished novel in progress Doyon.

Matrilineal Cycle, Oakland, CA, Red Star Black Rose Printing, 1990 (Reprinted from Open Heart Press publication, 1988): Poems: "The Figure in Clay", "Women in Old Parkas", "Grandmother's Dream", "Matmiya", "Where Banshee Wind Is", "The Light on the Tent Wall", "A Song for My Mother", "The Hands of Mary Joe", "Brother Wolverine", "My Wild Birds Flying".THE LAST WOLF There Is No Word for Goodbye, Oakland, Red Star Black Rose Printing, 1990 (Reprinted from Open Heart Press publication, 1988): A collection of 19 poems.

Poems: "Chant to the Spirit", "Continuum", "Are", "Ashes Unto Eden", "Silence and Small Music", " Folks on the Line", "Is There Light Still Springing?

A pamphlet including the poems "Birthing", "Smell of Rain", "I Send You Dulcimers", "Tissue Roses", "Out Where the Pavement Ends", "Girl Thinking of Striped Bass", "Somewhere Little Hawks", "Collage of Hours", "Or Green Tree Lizards".