Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs, occasionally credited as Devery Jacobs, is a Kanienʼkehá꞉ka (Mohawk) actress, writer, and director. In 2021, Jacobs was cast as a regular on the TV series "Reservation Dogs" about a group of Indigenous teenagers growing up in rural Oklahoma. Jacobs identifies as queer.

Jacobs began acting in the late 2000s with a role in the television series The Dead Zone and Assassin's Creed: Lineage. In 2013, Jacobs played the lead character in "Rhymes for Young Ghouls," which premiered at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. Jacobs was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her work in the film. At the time of her performance in "Rhymes for Young Ghouls," Jacobs was a student in the correctional intervention program at John Abbott College.

In 2014, she appeared in the "Sisters" music video for A Tribe Called Red. In 2019, Jacobs played a young Cherokee college student in the second season of American Gods. That same year, she played a recurring role as Lilith Bathory in the first and second seasons of the Netflix series "The Order."

Jacobs is credited as a story editor and staff writer for "Reservation Dogs" and has written on other projects such as "This Place," and has written and directed short films "Rae," "Ara Marumaru," and "Stolen." She has also directed an episode of "Reservation Dogs."

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