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.

Fixico is an enrolled member of the Sac & Fox Nation[1] and descendant of the Shawnee, Muscogee, and Seminole people.

History, University of Oklahoma, Norman 1974[3] Bacone Junior College, Muskogee, Oklahoma, 1969-1970[3] 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.

— Margaret Connell Szasz, Regents Professor of Native American and Celtic History at the University of New Mexico and author of Scottish Highlanders and Native Americans: Indigenous Education in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World[4]He has published a dozen books: He also has contributed to a number of publications, including "Removal of the Western Southeast Indians".

U.S. Government Printing (2004); Witness of Change Over Fifty Years of Indian Activism and Tribal Politics.

Professor Fixico has worked on nearly 20 historical documentaries, including Texas Ranch House (2006), Freedom Riders (2009) and American Experience (1988).