Later, she taught basket making on the Mohawk Reserve at Akwesasne. She traveled widely to give demonstrations of Mohawk basket making. Adams' duel cultural influences from being Mohawk and Roman Catholic is, in the words of scholar Olivia Thornburn, "interwoven with her splint ash and sweet grass baskets." She was active in St. Regis Catholic Church. Métis scholar Sherry Farrell Racette noted Adam's "skilled execution" in a unique stitch known as the "bird-mouth" stitch, and her skill in "texture created by the innovative application of tiny, miniature baskets."
