Full Name Donald Jacobs Name Four Arrows Other names Four Arrows | Nationality American Residence Mexico Role Writer | |
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Born 1946 (age 68–69) St. Louis, Missouri, United States Occupation Online (distance education) college professor Alma mater Columbia Pacific University | ||
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Donald ("Don") Trent Jacobs, also known as Four Arrows, (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 currently lives in Mexico.
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Early life and education
He 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.
Jacobs is of Cherokee and Scots-Irish ancestry.
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. In 2014 he was put on the International Fulbright Scholars list.
He is author of 21 published books and numerous articles and invited book chapters, including:
- 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.
Honors and awards
In 1996 he was named first alternate for the US Equestrian Team's 100 -mile Endurance Event. He was selected in 2009 by the AERO (Alternative Education Resource Organization) for one of the contributors to the text, Turning Points: 27 Visionaries in Education Tell Their Own Stories. In 2004, he received the Moral Courage Award from Northern Arizona University's Martin-Springer Institute. He placed 4th in the world in the 38th Annual World Champion Old-TIme Piano Playing Contest. See "The Entertainers."