Federal Fathers and Mothers A Social History of the United States Indian Service, 1869-1933

Name: Federal Fathers and Mothers A Social History of the United States Indian Service, 1869-1933
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ISBN: 9781469606811

ISBN-10: 146960681X

ISBN-13: 9781469606811

Edition: 2013

Authors: Cathleen Cahill

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Established in 1824, the United States Indian Service (USIS), now known as the Bureau of Indian Affairs, was the agency responsible for carrying out U.S. treaty and trust obligations to American Indians, but it also sought to "civilize" and assimilate them. InFederal Fathers and Mothers, Cathleen Cahill offers the first in-depth social history of the agency during the height of its assimilation efforts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Cahill shows how the USIS pursued a strategy of intimate colonialism, using employees as surrogate parents and model families in order to shift Native Americans' allegiances from tribal kinship networks to Euro-American familial structures…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 2/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.86" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English