Don Trent Jacobs
Four Arrows | |
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Born | Donald Trent Jacobs 1946 (age 74–75) St. Louis, Missouri, United States |
Nationality | American |
Other names | Four Arrows |
Alma mater | Southwest Missouri State University, Boise State University, Columbia Pacific University |
Occupation | Online (distance education) college professor |
Donald Trent Jacobs, also known as "Wahinkpe Topa," a Lakota term translating as Four Arrows,[1] (born 1946 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American college professor, writer and activist for American Indian rights whose work has focused on Indigenous worldviews, wellness and counter-hegemonic education. He lives in Mexico.[2]
Early life and education[]
Jacobs has a bachelor's degree from Southwest Missouri State University, an Ed.D. from Boise State University, and a Ph.D from Columbia Pacific University.[3][4][5]
Jacobs claims to be of Cherokee, Muscogee, [6] and Scots-Irish ancestry.[7]
Career[]
Jacobs is a faculty member in the School of Educational Leadership for Change at Fielding Graduate University.
He was formerly a tenured associate professor at Northern Arizona University and prior to that Dean of Education at Oglala Lakota College on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.[8][9] In 2014 he was put on the International Fulbright Scholars list.
Works[]
Jacobson has written and published 23 books and numerous articles and invited book chapters, including:
- Four Arrows (2020) Sitting Bulls Words for a World in Crises, DIO Press
- Four Arrows (2016) Point of Departure: Returning to Our Authentic Worldview for Education and Survival. Information Age Publishing
- Four Arrows (2013) Teaching Truly: A Curriculum to Indigenize Mainstream Education. New York: Peter Lang
- Four Arrows (2011) Differing Worldviews in Higher Education: Two Disagreeing Scholars Argue Cooperatively about Justice Education. Netherlands: Sense Publishers
- Four Arrows (2011). Last Song of the Whales. Maui, Hawaii: Savant Press
- Four Arrows, aka Jacobs, D.T. and Cajete, G. (2010), Critical Neurophilosophy and Indigenous Wisdom. Netherlands: Sense Publishers
- Four Arrows, aka Jacobs, D.T. (2008) The Authentic Dissertation: Alternative Ways of Knowing, Research and Representation. London: Routledge
- Four Arrows. (2006) The Shrimp Habit: How it is Destroying Our World. Victoria: Trafford.
- Four Arrows, aka Jacobs, D.T. Ed., (2006) Unlearning the Language of Conquest: Scholars Challenge Anti-Indianism in America. Austin: University of Texas Press.
- Four Arrows and Fetzer, J. (2004) American Assassination: The Strange Death of Senator Paul Wellstone. New York: Vox Pop.
- Jacobs, D. and Jacobs-Spencer, J. (2001) Teaching Virtues: Building Character Across the Curriculum. Landham, Md.: Scarecrow Education Press, a division of Roman and Littlefield.
- Jacobs, D. (1997) Primal Awareness: A True Story of Survival, Transformation and Awakening with the Raramuri Shamans of Mexico. Rochester, Vt.: Inner Traditions International.
- Jacobs, D. (1994 ) The Bum’s Rush: The Selling of Environmental Backlash. Boise, Id.: Legendary Publishing.
- Jacobs, D. (1988) Patient Communication for First Responders: The First Hour of Trauma. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall.
- Jacobs, D. (1988) Physical Fitness Programs for Public Safety Employees, 2nd edition, Boston: NFPA.
References[]
- ^ "Four Arrows." The Entertainers. Retrieved 18 July 2012.
- ^ http://www.inklingsliterary.com/Wahinkpe_Topa.html
- ^ http://www.fielding.edu/whyFielding/about/facultyBio.aspx?Channel=%2FChannels%2FAdmissions&WorkflowItemID=86129da5-9bb3-4a93-8802-3fd5bd72f130
- ^ Four Arrows (Don Trent Jacobs), PhD , EdD Archived 2016-01-01 at the Wayback Machine, Fielding Graduate University website
- ^ NETNOTES: Columbia Pacific University Alumni Info
- ^ He is a made relative of the Ogalala and a member of the Medicine Horse Tiospaye who has fulfilled his Sun Dance vows with Rick Two Dogs. He is the author of a number of publications including: "Four Arrows." Teaching Virtues. Retrieved 18 July 2012.
- ^ "Unlearning the Language of Conquest." University of Texas Press., Sitting Bull's Words for a World in Crises, 2020, DIO Press, et al Retrieved 18 July 2012.
- ^ "academicleadership.org - Diese Website steht zum Verkauf! - Informationen zum Thema chairperson chairman head hunters college president dean department chair academic leadership". www.academicleadership.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-05-04. Retrieved 2010-02-19.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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- Living people
- 1946 births
- American people of Cherokee descent
- American people of Muscogee descent
- American people of Scotch-Irish descent
- American writers of Native American descent
- People from St. Louis
- Columbia Pacific University alumni
- Southeast Missouri State University alumni
- Boise State University alumni