This is what Stanford (Sandy) Taylor wrote about the Brokenjaw. "It is part of one of my books" Joylene Tibbitts writes. "Here it is": Joy

Brokenjaw

Archival records show three history cards for Brokenjaw, which usually shows the children of each marriage.

First card shows Knows the Country, as his son, with no mothers name.

The second shows Esther Brokenjaw Hairy Bear Little Cook, as his daughter, with no known mother.

The last card shows Brokenjaw and wife Nujawin, and their children as, Luther Brokenjaw, Lewis Brokenjaw, and Benjamin Brokenjaw.

At the time of his death he was living with a Yankton Sioux woman, but they didn’t have children. He died April 6, 1898.

The following was taken from notes my mother, Velma Louise Pensoneau Jones, Mrs. Lee Jones, left.

Broken Jaw was father of:

1. Knows the Country, son
2. Standing Bear, son
3. Big Snake, son
4. Standing Buffalo, son
5. Daughter,

Esther Broken Jaw, Little Cook, Hairy Bear. Esther's mother was Four Eyes. Her descendant, Franklin was Four Eyes but later became Fireshaker, as is the way of the Ponca to update a name according to the present ways in which they live.

Velma entertained Franklin and his daughter, Alena in the year c. later part of the 20th century.

Franklin's daughter was studying to be a P.A. at the time. She is a beautiful and highly intelligent woman. Her mother was a personal caretaker to the late Randolf Hearst's wife in California. http://hearstfdn.org/

Dan Jones's last work of art is a meticulously formed bronze eagle. On the back he records our connection with Franklin Fireshaker, giving him credit for his keeping the legend of Eagle Boy alive through Frandlin's artwork. Franklin was also an actor.

Esther was the sister to Lewis Broken Jaw who lived in the north. Esther lived here at Ponca City, Oklahoma on her and Sam Little Cook's allotment along the Salt Fork River. She was buried there close to the fence line. Her bones were reportedly plowed up years later by the farmers who leased the land. I identified the necklace she wore when buried.

Velma told. Many are the descendants of Broken Jaw: Pensoneaus, Joneses, Arkeketa, Little Cook, Give's Water, Liebs, Big Snake, Kemble, Cries for Ribs, No Ear, Brown, and many more.

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