Historical Committee A Conference Cheyenne, Arapaho, Mennonite: Journey from Darlington   March 30-April 2, 2006, Clinton, Oklahoma Dr. Donald L. Fixico Arizona State University   Conference Home Page Program Other Presenters Concurrent Sessions News Article Cheyenne Arapaho Mennonite Bibliography Link to the Frisco Center website Link to the Clinton, Oklahoma, website                                   Dr. Donald L. Fixico is Distinguished Foundation Professor, Department of History, Arizona State University. He was born in Shawnee, Okla., and is one-quarter Shawne, Sac and Fox, Muscogee Creek and Seminole.  After a PhD from University of Oklahoma, he received postdoctoral fellowships at UCLA’s American Indian Studies Center and the D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History at the Newberry Library, Chicago. Fixico is a former Newberry Fellow and Ford Fellow; has served on the Advisory Council for the National Endowment for the Humanities; has been a visiting professor at the University of Nottingham, England; Freie University, Berlin; and John Rhodes Visiting Professor in the Barrett Honors College at ASU. More recently he was Thomas Bowles Distinguished Professor of American Indian History and Director of the Center for Indigenous Studies at the University of Kansas. His pubished works include: Treaties with American Indians : An Encyclopedia of Rights, Conflicts, and Sovereignty, to be released September 28, 2005 Native Pathways: American Indian Culture And Economic Development In The Twentieth Century, 2004 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: American Capitalism and Tribal Natural Resources, 1998 Termination and relocation: Federal Indian policy, 1945-1960 Rethinking American Indian History, 1997 Urban Indians (Indians of North America), 1991 The American Indian Experience from Prehistory to the Present: Themes, Perspectives, and Relationships, The Occupation of Alcatraz Island: Indian Self-Determination and the Rise of Indian Activism Native Pathways: American Indian Culture and Economic Development in the Twentieth Century For more information, to make a monetary contribution, or to submit a proposal for presentation, contact James Juhnke or John Sharp Planning Committee: James Juhnke (chair), Lawrence Hart, Jane Janzen, Richard Friesen, Raylene Hinz-Penner, John Sharp (staff) <Back to main conference page

Maggie Leonard first Native American baptized by General Conference Mennonite Missionaries Mission Statement: "God calls us to preserve our heritage, to interpret our faith stories, and to proclaim God's work among us."