Trickster Academy cooking a program of the Mille

a program of the Mille Lacs Band that means "Changing Lives

where their lives were changed forever

who have lived there for generations

For the first time

in producing well-rounded human beings and helping students establish their identity as twenty-first-century Indigenous peoples

Trickster Academy cooking a program of the MilleTrickster Academy is a collection of poems that explore being Native in Academia from land acknowledgement statements, to mascots, to the histories of using Native American remains in anthropology. Jenny L. Davis' collection brings humor and uncomfortable realities together in order to challenge the academy and discuss the experience of being Indigenous in university classrooms and campuses. Organized around the premise of the Trickster Academy a