Educated at the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania under the U.S. policy of acculturating Indian children through school and removal from their homelands, Susie Rayos Marmon was instrumental in bringing education back to Laguna. A lifelong teacher, oral historian, and storyteller, she was honored with a school in her name in Albuquerque in 1989 and received many national and state citations for her commitment to educating students.