Blumenstein was a member of the International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers—a group of spiritual elders, medicine women and wisdom keepers—since its founding in 2004.
[5] In the 1970s Blumenstein taught basketry at Matanuska–Susitna College in Alaska, working with techniques she learned as a child,[3] a process she described as a living interaction.
[2]: 46 At the age of 9, Blumenstein's great-grandmother gave her 13 eagle feathers and 13 stones to give to the International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers.
[8] Years later, when the International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers convened for the first time, Blumenstein passed out these precious objects to the rest of the members with tears in her eyes.
[2]: 48–49 After Blumenstein started healing people from the age of 4,[2]: 46 she "worked at many hospitals delivering babies as a doctor's aide in Bethel and Nome".
[11] Blumenstein taught in more than 150 countries on cultural issues, basket weaving, song, and dance, "earning money for Native American Colleges.