ROBERT M. UTLEY

Robert M. Utley is former Chief Historian of the National Park Service. He is a founding member and former president of the Western History Association and the author of more than fifteen distinguished works of history and biography including biographies of Billy the Kid, Sitting Bull and George Armstrong Custer. His Biography of Sitting Bull (The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull) was a New York Times Notable Book and has garnered praise from such national publications as The Wall Street Journal (“A remarkable work of scholarship.”), The Boston Globe (“The need for a solid narrative life of Sitting Bull...has long been evident, and Robert Utley is eminently qualified for the task...thanks to this engrossing biography, Sitting Bull’s voice can at last proclaim his authentic message”).  Utley is also the author of The Last Days of the Sioux Nation, Cavalier in Buckskin: George Armstrong Custer and the Western Military Frontier,  Lone Star Justice: The First Century of the Texas Rangers, among other books.

DONALD  L.  FIXICO, P.hD.

Dr. Donald L. Fixico, is a Thomas Bowlus Distinguished Professor of American Indian History, CLAS Scholar and former Director of the Center for Indigenous Nations Studies at the University of Kansas.  Currently he is Distinguished Foundation Professor of History at Arizona State University.  Born in Shawnee, Oklahoma, Dr. Fixico is of the Sac & Fox, Shawnee, Creek and Seminole tribes. After a Ph.D. from the 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 Newberry Library, Chicago.  He has authored Termination and Relocation: Federal Indian Policy, 1945-1960, Urban Indians, The Invasion of Indian Country in the Twentieth Century: American Capitalism and Tribal Natural Resources, and The Urban Experience in American.  He has written and published over 50 articles on Indians of the 19th and 20th centuries.   In November 2000, President Clinton appointed Dr. Fixico to the Advisory Council of the National Endowment for the Humanities.  Recently he was a John Rhodes Visiting Professor of Public Policy and American Institutions in the Barrett Honors. Presently he is a Distinguished Foundation Professor of History at Arizona State University.