PREFACE 1. INDIAN THINKING AND A LINEAR WORLD 2. ORAL TRADITION AND TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE 3. AMERICAN INDIAN CIRCULAR PHILOSOPHY 4. NATIVE AMERICAN GENIUS AND INDIAN INTELLECTUALISM 5. INDIAN MINDS AND WHITE TEACHERS 6. RISE OF AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES 7. CULTURAL PATRIMONY AND NATIVE SCHOLARS 8. INSTITUTIONALIZING TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE 9. THE FULL CIRCLE AND ITS CENTER BIBLIOGRAPHY
Donald L. Fixico is the Thomas Bowlus Distinguished Professor of American Indian History, CLAS Scholar, director of the Indigenous Nations Studies Program and Center, and editor of Indigenous Nations Studies Journal at the University of Kansas. He is an American Indian (Shawnee, Sac and Fox, Muscogee Creek, Seminole).
"Donald Fixico, a leading historian of the indigenous experience,
writes with a powerful voice from Indian Country. His provocative
message about Indian ways of thought should be considered by anyone
interested in Native American Studies." -- Peter Mancall,
University of Southern California
"This provocative and courageous work by a leading American Indian
scholar makes an important contribution to American intellectual
and cultural history. It provides a valuable synthesis of key ideas
and insightful introductions to major individuals, programs, and
institutions. Donald Fixico has written an honest, searching, and
significant book." -- Peter Iverson, Arizona State University
"Drawing on both personal experience and the abundant literature on
Native Americans, Donald Fixico argues for the uniqueness of the
American Indian mind, which he characterizes as representing a
visual and circular philosophy based on relationship to the natural
world. The book is a call for American Indian intellectual
sovereignty and for the importance of perpetuating tradition to
maintain identity in the modern world." -- Raymond J. DeMallie,
Indiana University
"Written from an American Indian point of view, TheAmerican Indian
Mind in a Linear World is a searing critical multidisciplinary
review and analysis of the differences existing between the Indian
and Anglo-American mind." -- Leonard Bruguier, University of South
Dakota
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