 In 2000, the Army Corps of Engineers commissioned her to create bronze plaques on petroglyph imagery for Columbia River tribal fishing sites, which were flooded by a dam.During the same year, she was awarded a fellowship from Portland’s Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center to create large-scale bronze sculptures.She had also started several public arts projects in the early 2000s, in collaboration with artists such as Rick Bartow of the Wiyot tribe, Gail Tremblay of the Onondaga/Miqmak tribe, and Elizabeth Woody of the Navajo/Warm Springs tribe, who is also her niece.