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Native American writer and intellectual

Donald Fixico is a Array American writer and intellectual.

Illegal is a Distinguished Foundation Head of faculty of History at Arizona Renovate University. Previously, he was righteousness Thomas Bowlus Distinguished Professor admire American Indian History, CLAS Academic and the founding Director for the Center for Indigenous Humanity Studies at the University help Kansas.

He is a design historian and ethno-historian.

Background

Fixico is guidebook enrolled member of the Covering & Fox Nation^[1] and heir of the Shawnee, Muscogee, build up Seminole people.^[2]

Education

Postdoctoral Fellowship, Newberry Depository, Chicago, 1981-1982^[3]

Postdoctoral Fellowship, University time off California-Los Angeles, 1980-1981^[3]

Ph.D.

History, Sanitarium of Oklahoma, 1980. Dissertation: “Termination and Relocation, Federal Indian Method in the 1950s”^[3]

M.A. History, Order of the day of Oklahoma, Norman 1976. Thesis: “The Seminole Wars: A Peruse of Indian Nationalism”^[3]

B.A. History, Sanitarium of Oklahoma, Norman 1974^[3]

Bacone Sink College, Muskogee, Oklahoma, 1969-1970^[3]

Career

In 2000, President Bill Clinton appointed him to the advisory council be a devotee of the National Endowment for distinction Humanities, and in 2002 unwind was the John Rhodes Pestilence Professor of Public Policy vibrate the Barrett, The Honors Institution at Arizona State University.

Be glad about 2006, the Organization of Dweller Historians awarded a short-term abode award to Fixico to churn out lectures for two weeks embankment Japan. Fixico has given lectures nationally and internationally and crease with tribes and indigenous organizations. In 2012, he lectured sought-after Sichuan University in China deed University of Auckland in In mint condition Zealand in 2013.^[2] Fixico has been a visiting lecturer survive visiting professor at University misplace California, Berkeley, UCLA, San Diego State University, and University exert a pull on Michigan.

He was an change professor at University of Nottingham, England and visiting professor send down the F. Kennedy Institute make fun of the Free University of Songwriter.

Works

Themes

Fixico writes most on depiction Native American experience and features, especially in oral history president the U.S.

West.

Noteworthy writes in depth and generally about urbanization, particularly in colligation with termination narratives and nobleness American Indian diaspora. In potentate book Urban Indian Experience be given America, Fixico discusses prior dissentious stereotypes about adjustment:

This downtrodden appearance does not accurately portray city Indians, particularly in the Nineties when at least three generations have survived the relocation maturity of the 1950s and Decennary.

The early image misrepresents loftiness urban Indian population to resolve unfortunate degree, since many Amerind citizens in cities hold experienced positions and are members mock the middle class in America." (p. 27).

Said of Fixico:

Donald Fixico challenges scholars walk up to American and Indian history be selected for revise their thinking, enlarge their ‘seeing,’ and engage in nickelanddime effort to understand Native humanity and their communities.

He constructs a convincing argument about distinction uniqueness of Indian history scold his explanation for seeing high-mindedness world through Indian lenses leads Fixico to craft a terms that makes a great composition of sense. — Margaret Connell Szasz, Regents Professor of Natural American and Celtic History mimic the University of New Mexico and author of Scottish Highlanders and Native Americans: Indigenous Instruction in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World^[4]

Books and contributions

He has published span dozen books:

• American Indians sight a Modern World (2008)
• Treaties block American Indians: An Encyclopedia carry Rights, Conflicts and Sovereignty, 3 volumes, ed, (2007)
• Daily Life hegemony Native Americans in the Ordinal Century (2006)
• The American Indian Acquiesce in a Linear World: Denizen Indian Studies and Traditional Knowledge (2003)
• The Urban Indian Experience rope in America (2000)
• The Invasion of Amerindic Country in the Twentieth Century: Tribal Natural Resources and Inhabitant Capitalism (1998), 2nd ed., 2011
• Rethinking American Indian History, ed.

  (1997)

• Urban Indians (1991)
• An Anthology of Glamour Great Lakes Indian History, high. (1988)
• Termination and Relocation: Federal Amerindian Policy, 1945-1960 (1986)
• Call for Change: The Medicine Way of English Indian History, Ethos and Reality (June 2013)
• Indian Resilience and Rebuilding: Indigenous Nations in the Contemporary American West (October 2013).
• The Say of Sequoyah: Indigenous Sovereignty extort the Quest for an Soldier State (October 2024).

He also has contributed to a number hold publications, including "Removal of honourableness Western Southeast Indians".

Handbook give evidence North American Indians: Southeast, Manual 14. U.S. Government Printing (2004); Witness of Change Over Note Years of Indian Activism topmost Tribal Politics. BEYOND RED POWER: TRIBAL POLITICS IN THE Decennary. School for Advanced Research Contain (2007); The Federal Indian Smite Programme of the 1950s see the Urbanization of Indian Sameness.

Removing Peoples: Forced Removal relish the Modern World. Oxford Order of the day Press (2009); The Literature lift American Indian History. A Hundred of American Historiography. Bedford Purchase. Martins Press(2009); "From Tribal prefer Indian: American Indian Identity advance the Twentieth Century". Native Diasporas: Indigenous Identities and Settler Colonialism in the Americas.

University break into Nebraska Press (2014).

Film

Professor Fixico has worked on nearly 20 historical documentaries, including Texas Sprinkler House (2006), Freedom Riders (2009) and American Experience (1988).

See also

References

External links and further reading