While studying for her master's degree at the University of Utah, Jones was hired by the
Institute of American Indian Arts to produce what would become "Sipapu: A Drama of Authentic Dance and Chants of Indian America" which featured thirty Modern dancers and two hundred traditional dancers from the
Institute of American Indian Arts in
Santa Fe,
New Mexico. Later, at Juilliard, her studies involved working with fellow student Cordell Morsette and members of the
Flandreau Indian High School in South Dakota to produce "The Gift of the Pipe" a re-telling of the story of
White Buffalo Calf Woman. The company distinguished itself by developing modern dance performances featuring Native American stories and oral histories. In the early 1990s, she chaired the
Institute of American Indian Arts Department of Performing Arts in Santa Fe. From 2005 to 2017 she taught in the Indigenous Studies program at
Trent University in the area of Indigenous performance. Jones' style has been described as encompassing multiple styles that, while restaging Indigenous stories, also seeks to reclaim identities on a foundation of traditional culture while demonstrating a mastery of Western stage dance techniques. == Family ==