[3] Her specialty in Native studies is researching Aboriginal ways of understanding the world in the fields of sciences and engineering.
[5] As an activist, she has worked to set up a shelter for women facing domestic violence in Prince Albert.
[2] In 2013, she was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for her work and contributions to Canada.
The book's collection of stories were called by Windspeaker to be "both inspiring and thought-provoking" on the topic of women in Native communities.
[6] The word Âhkamêyimowak, roughly means "persistence" and the "strength for women to carry on in the face of extreme adversity," writes Settee.