Background
Her father was Cherokee and her mother Natchez, and she learned Natchez at home.
Her father was Cherokee and her mother Natchez, and she learned Natchez at home.
She never learned English, but was trilingual in Natchez, Cherokee and Creek. In 1907 she worked a little with anthropologist John R. Swanton who collected information about Natchez religion, and in the 1930s she worked extensively with linguist Mary Haas who collected grammatical information and texts using an interpreter. Among the stories she told Mary Haas was one called "The Woman Who was a Fox".
In the 1930s she appears to have been once again widowed.
In 1930 she sold her land allotment.