Career
She helped found the Native American Press Association in 1984, which became the Native American Journalists Association in 1990. She co-founded the Wolf Point Traditional Women"s Society and edited two magazines: Native Peoples and Aboriginal Voices. She taught college journalism, and owned a production company.
She was also a contributing writer for News From Indian Country.
She worked with the Wotanin Wowapi at Fort Peck as a writer and columnist for Red Road Home. As a journalist, she wrote about water rights, air quality, the environment, oil, gas and economic development.
Along with other leaders in the American Indian Movement, she was featured in the film The Spirit of Annie Mae. Indeed, she is often cited as being instrumental in uncovering information regarding the 1975 murder of Annie Mae Aquash (Annie Mae Pictou-Aquash).
She knew Annie Mae personally.
She was highly regarded as a mentor and activist in her community. Minnie Two Shoes was an Assiniboine Sioux from the Fort Peck Reservation in Montana. She earned her bachelor"s degree in Community Development from Native American Education Service College in Fort Peck in 1983.
She worked as an instructor in Communications at the Fort Peck College 1992-1993.
Her husband, whose death preceded hers, was John Carmichael. Minnie Two Shoes died in Minneapolis, Minnesota on April 9, 2010 after battling cancer.