Donald L. Fixico | |
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Born | Donald Lee Fixico (Fekseko) Shawnee, Oklahoma |
Occupation | Writer, intellectual |
Nationality | Shawnee, Sac and Fox, Muscogee Creek, Seminole |
Genre | Native American intellectualism |
Literary movement | Indigenous Nationalism |
Notable works |
Resources and American Capitalism
Linear World and Daily Life of Native Americans in the Twentieth Century |
Resources and American Capitalism
Linear World and Daily Life of Native Americans in the Twentieth Century
Donald Fixico is an American writer and intellectual. He is a Distinguished Foundation Professor of History at Arizona State University. 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.
Fixico is of the Shawnee, Sac and Fox, Muscogee Creek, and Seminole tribes.
Fixico received his postdoctoral fellowships at UCLA and The Newberry Library, Chicago.
In 2000, President Bill Clinton appointed him to the advisory council of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and in 2002 he was the John Rhodes Visiting Professor of Public Policy in the Barrett, The Honors College at Arizona State University. In 2006, the Organization of American Historians awarded a short-term residency award to Fixico to give lectures for two weeks in Japan. Fixico has given lectures nationally and internationally and works with tribes and indigenous organizations. In 2012, he lectured at Sichuan University in China and University of Auckland in New Zealand in 2013. Fixico has been a visiting lecturer and visiting professor at University of California, Berkeley, UCLA, San Diego State University, and University of Michigan. He was an exchange professor at University of Nottingham, England and visiting professor in the F. Kennedy Institute at the Free University of Berlin.