James McDonald (Choctaw, 1801-1833?), the first American Indian to practice law in the United States, was born in Mississippi. At the start of his legal career, McDonald was enlisted to assist his chief, Pushmataha, in defending the Choctaws' homeland from the advances of a rising generation of frontier politicians, a group led by soon-to-be-president Andrew Jackson. The legal arguments McDonald devised during this crisis failed to prevent his tribe's removal to the West, but they formed the basis for articulating a doctrine in indigenous rights within American law.
Professor Hoxie is Swanlund Professor of History; he is affiliated also with the College of Law and the university’s American Indian Studies program. A specialist in U.S. and Native American history, Dr. Hoxie’s courses include undergraduate courses in American History, a two-semester survey course on the history of Native Americans, upper level courses in American Indian law, “Natives and Newcomers” (a comparative look at indigenous peoples and European expansion), and other special topics. He regularly offers graduate seminars in Native American history and ethnohistorical approaches to the past.

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