Donald Fixico

Donald Fixico is a Native American writer and intellectual. He is a Regents' and Distinguished Foundation Professor of History at Arizona State University. Previously, he was the Thomas Bowlus Distinguished Professor of American Indian History, CLAS Scholar and the founding Director of the Center for Indigenous Nations Studies at the University of Kansas.

He is a policy historian and ethno-historian.

Background Fixico is an enrolled member of the Sac & Fox Nation and is Shawnee, Muscogee, and Seminole.

Education Postdoctoral Fellowship, Newberry Library, Chicago, 1981-1982

Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of California-Los Angeles, 1980-1981

Books and contributions He has published twenty books with some listed here: American Indians in a Modern World (2008) Treaties with American Indians: An Encyclopedia of Rights, Conflicts and Sovereignty, 3 volumes, ed, (2007) Daily Life of Native Americans in the Twentieth Century (2006) The American Indian Mind in a Linear World: American Indian Studies and Traditional Knowledge (2003) The Urban Indian Experience in America (2000) The Invasion of Indian Country in the Twentieth Century: Tribal Natural Resources and American Capitalism (1998), 2nd ed., 2011 Rethinking American Indian History, ed. (1997) Urban Indians (1991) An Anthology of Western Great Lakes Indian History, ed. (1988) Termination and Relocation: Federal Indian Policy, 1945-1960 (1986) Call for Change: The Medicine Way of American Indian History, Ethos and Reality (June 2013) Indian Resilience and Rebuilding: Indigenous Nations in the Modern American West (October 2013). The State of Sequoyah: Indigenous Sovereignty and the Quest for an Indian State (October 2024).

He also has contributed to a number of publications, including "Removal of the Western Southeast Indians". Handbook of North American Indians: Southeast, Volume 14. U.S. Government Printing (2004); Witness of Change Over Fifty Years of Indian Activism and Tribal Politics. BEYOND RED POWER: TRIBAL POLITICS IN THE 1960S. School for Advanced Research Press (2007); The Federal Indian Relocation Programme of the 1950s and the Urbanization of Indian Identity. Removing Peoples: Forced Removal in the Modern World. Oxford University Press (2009); The Literature of American Indian History. A Century of American Historiography. Bedford St. Martins Press(2009); "From Tribal to Indian: American Indian Identity in the Twentieth Century". Native Diasporas: Indigenous Identities and Settler Colonialism in the Americas. University of Nebraska Press (2014).

Film Professor Fixico has worked on more than 25 historical documentaries, including Texas Ranch House (2006), Freedom Riders (2009) and American Experience (1988).