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Jacobs in 2019, photo by kathclick /Bigstock.com
Birth Name: Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs
Place of Birth: Kahnawake, Québec, Canada
Date of Birth: August 8, 1993
Ethnicity: Mohawk
Devery Jacobs is a Canadian actress. She is particularly known for her role on the show Reservation Dogs , for which she has also been a writer and director. She has also starred in the films Rhymes for Young Ghouls , The Sun at Midnight , Another WolfCop , The Lie (2018), Blood Quantum , Rustic Oracle , Bootlegger (2021), This Place , and Backspot ; and on the shows Mohawk Girls , Cardinal , The Order , American Gods , Rutherford Falls , Spirit Rangers , What If…? , Echo , and Ark: The Animated Series . She has also been credited as Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs and K. Devery Jacobs.
She is the daughter of Layne Myiow and Clint Jacobs. A picture of Devery and her father can be seen here . Devery is Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk), and a member of the Bear Clan.
Kawennáhere’s paternal grandfather was Kenneth Anerahtinehtha Jacobs (the son of Peter Jacobs and Anna Kwahthara:nni Albany). Kenneth was born in Kahnawake, Québec.
Kawennáhere’s paternal grandmother is named Annette Kaia’titahkhe Peters.
Source: Obituary of Kawennáhere’s maternal grandfather, Kenneth Anerahtinehtha Jacobs – https://www.newspapers.com