Her research and teaching interests include: first-year composition, personal and public writing, English Language Learners, Cultural Rhetorics, Indigenous and Survivance Rhetorics, American Indian Boarding Schools, (Re)presentations of Indigenous Peoples, and Vernacular Literacies. Currently, she is working on a co-edited edition on teaching Indigenous rhetorics. In 1996, she was a recipient of the Scholars for the Dream. She is co-founder of the American Indian Caucus and has served on the Resolutions Committee, Scholars for the Dream Section Committee and the Tribal College Fellowship Committee.