As a young woman, Montoya wrote about boxing and legal subjects for the
Los Angeles Express and
Los Angeles Herald newspapers. She also wrote for periodicals, including
New Outlook. She was adopted into the family of
Oglala Sioux chief
Luther Standing Bear in Los Angeles in 1929, and welcomed at
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in 1934. She assisted Standing Bear in writing
True Stories of the Sioux,
My Indian Boyhood, and
Land of the Spotted Eagle (1933). In Los Angeles, Jones was president of the American Indian Woman's History and Art Club, and secretary of the American Indian Women's Club and the Popular Science Society. She spoke on American Indian history and culture at the
Southwest Museum in 1928, and to various church and community groups, often in costume and with music and slides. In 1932, in connection with the
1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, she was slated to represent Native American religious traditions at a Parliament of World Religions. Jones was connected with the San Bernardino County Museum later in life; she spoke at the museum's annual gala in 1960 and 1964. In 1963, she taught a class in ethnology at the museum. and the museum published her booklet,
The Lore and Symbolism of Birds and their Relation to Man. One of her speeches was reprinted in
Aboriginal American Oratory: The Tradition of Eloquence among the Indians of the United States (1965). == Personal life and legacy ==