Daniel J. Cox

Daniel J. Cox is a Native American Actor born December 16, in Oklahoma City. He is an enrolled member of the Comanche Tribe of Oklahoma and descendant of the Kiowa, Cheyenne, Otoe, Quapaw and Creek Seminole tribes. Daniel's family lineage proudly originates through the Comanche Chief Quanah Parker whose mother was Cynthia Ann Parker, a white captive whose family resided in Fort Parker, Texas. His maternal grandfather, Sergeant Simmons Parker, was one of fourteen highly decorated US Army WWII Comanche Code Talkers. His maternal Kiowa great grandfather was Mokeen 'Man of Iron', the last Sundance and Ghost Dance Holy Man of times when tribes still lived free on the southern plains of the United States. His great grandfather, Lucious Aitson, was the first ordained Christian minister of the Kiowa Tribe, whose story is told in the book, 'Light on the Mountain' by Ms. Crawford. As an Otoe tribal member, Daniel's family descends directly through Chief Arkeketa (1800s.) His Quapaw family includ