Donald Trent Jacobs (born 1946) is an American college professor and writer whose subject matter includes American Indian rights, Indigenous worldviews, wellness, and counter-hegemonic education.
[3][4][5] His public biography states that he has "Cherokee, Muscogee Creek, and Scots-Irish ancestry.
"[6][7] 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 2004 he received the Moral Courage Award from the Martin Springer Institute at Northern Arizona University for his activism.