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Trickster Academy / Jenny L. Davis.

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"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

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

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

I Land Acknowledgment Statement -- Land Acknowledgment instructions and Style Guide p. 3 -- Administrator's Prayer Before Reading a Land Acknowledgment Statement p. 4 -- Official Land Acknowledgment Statement of the Trickster Academy p. 5 -- Abbreviated Land Acknowledgment Statement: A Blackout Poem p. 6 -- Water Acknowledgment Statement p. 7 -- Ofi' Tohbi' p. 9 -- Abookoshi' Hapi Oshi (Little Salt Creek) p. 10 -- Submergence p. 12 -- Ceremony of Rending p. 13 -- Ofi' Tohbi' Ihina' p. 14 -- Four Directions p. 15 -- We Leave Home p. 16 -- II What Kind of Trickster Are You? -- Just What Kind of Trickster Are You? p. 21 -- The Girl Who Loves Turtles p. 22 -- Found Poem, External Shell p. 23 -- So Your Great-Grandmother Was a Trickster? p. 24 -- Real Indian ABC p. 25 -- Inside Each of Us Are Two Tricksters p. 27 -- Recipe for Water Gravy p. 28 -- Slow to Heal p. 29 -- Chickasaw Word for Trickster p. 30 -- Indian Giver p. 33 -- How Turtle Got Her Shell p. 34 -- Süper Tradish p. 35 -- Academic Arms Race p. 36 -- How to Read a Book of Poems p. 37 -- #21CenturyIndianProblems p. 39 -- Academic Sideshow Woman p. 40 -- III Trickster Academy -- Trickster Academy p. 43 -- A Seat at the Trickster's Table p. 45 -- The (American) Indian (Studies) Removal Act of 2014 p. 47 -- Before We Were Ashes p. 48 -- Saint Pocahontas p. 49 -- Austerity Measures p. 50 -- Settlers' Home Journal p. 51 -- This Poem p. 53 -- Trickster Story p. 55 -- Warm Bodies p. 56 -- Recipe for Red Sauce p. 58 -- Footnotes, from Methodologies of Soft Tissue p. 59 -- Gifts Between Ghosts p. 62 -- Room 119 p. 63 -- Lullaby for Bones p. 64 -- Jack and the Indian Collector p. 65 -- Silent Prayer of an Indian Anthropologist Before Heading to Work p. 66 -- Mother of Bones p. 67 -- This Bundle p. 68 -- Bone Songs p. 69. .