A friend of hers was employed at the Federal Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and arranged for her to receive a scholarship to attend the University of Kansas for two years.

BIA education director Willard Beatty encouraged her to enter a career in teaching and helped her get a scholarship for the Milwaukee State Teachers College,[1] where she received her Bachelor of Science degree.

She was recognized for her "exceptional creative and executive ability in the administration of a unique and complex school program for disadvantaged Indian youth".

[1] That year, Victor was accused by both the American Indian Movement and Navajo chairman Peter MacDonald of "attempted to stop all reforms in the BIA which were aimed at giving Natives more self-determination."

Steve Nickeson, a writer with the National Indian Youth Council, described her as "a conservative, politically influential charter member of the Haskell Mafia.