[1] She shares Hane', or Diné Blessingway stories, and is a former Miss Navajo Nation, having won the title in 1982.
[3] She is from the Chi Chil' Tah (Where the Oaks Grow) community in New Mexico,[2][4] and grew up on the Navajo reservation in Arizona.
[5] A year later, she published a story called "Mai and the Cliff-Dwelling Birds" in the 2010 book, Trickster: Native American Tales.
[9] As of 2021, Dooley lives in Chi Chil' Tah in a hogan, a traditional log house.
In 2024, she served as a cultural advisor and one of the central narrative figures in Johannes Grenzfurther's documentary Hacking at Leaves.