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Trickster Academy

Davis, Jenny L. (Jenny Lynn) (author.).

Summary: "Trickster Academy is a full-length collection of poems that explore the experience of being Native in Academia-from land acknowledgement statements to the criteria for tenure and the histories of using Native American remains within Anthropology. Organized around the premise of the Trickster Academy, a university space run by and meant for training "tricksters," this collection moves between the personal dynamics of a two-spirit Indigenous woman in spaces where there are few others, and a "trickster's" critique of those same spaces. But these realities aren't specific only to those in academic positions-from leaving home, to being the only Indian in the room, to having to deal with the constant pressures to being a 'real Indian', they are shared experiences of Indians across many different regions, and all of us who live among tricksters"--

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  • ISBN: 9780816542659
  • ISBN: 0816542651
  • Physical Description: print
    72 pages ; 23 cm.
  • Publisher: Tucson [Arizona] : The University of Arizona Press, 2022.

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Subject: Indians of North America -- Poetry
Minority women in higher education -- Poetry
Genre: Poetry.
Topic Heading: First Nations.
Indigenous.

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The Pas Campus Library PS 3604 .A96224 T74 2022 (Text) 58500000808881 Stacks Volume hold Available -
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Jenny L. Davis is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation and an associate professor of Anthropology and American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she is the director of the American Indian Studies Program.

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