03677nam 2200673Ia 450 991082253640332120200520144314.01-4696-0303-90-8078-7773-5(CKB)2670000000095354(EBL)716593(OCoLC)731646881(SSID)ssj0000522557(PQKBManifestationID)11381426(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000522557(PQKBWorkID)10539186(PQKB)11303627(OCoLC)966913550(MdBmJHUP)muse48580(Au-PeEL)EBL716593(CaPaEBR)ebr10478391(MiAaPQ)EBC716593(MiAaPQ)EBC4322000(EXLCZ)99267000000009535420101213d2011 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFederal fathers & mothers a social history of the United States Indian Service, 1869-1933 /Cathleen D. Cahill1st ed.Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20111 online resource (385 p.)First peoples : new directions in indigenous studies"Published in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University."1-4696-0681-X 0-8078-3472-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Pt. 1. From Civil War to civil service -- There is an honest way even of breaking up a treaty : the origins of Indian assimilation policy -- Only the home can found a state : building a better agency -- pt. 2. The women and men of the Indian Service -- Members of an "Amazonian corps" : white women in the Indian Service -- Seeking the incalculable benefit of a faithful, patient man and wife : married employees in the Indian Service -- An Indian teacher among Indians : American Indian labor in the Indian Service -- Sociability in the Indian Service -- The Hoopa Valley Reservation -- pt. 3. The progressive state and the Indian Service -- A nineteenth-century agency in a twentieth-century age -- An old and faithful employee : the Federal Employee Retirement Act and the Indian Service.Established in 1824, the United States Indian Service, 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. In Federal 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.Making extensive and original use of federal personnel files and other archival materials, Cahill examines how assimilation practiFirst peoples (2010)Federal fathers and mothersCivil serviceSocial aspectsUnited StatesHistoryIndians of North AmericaCultural assimilationHistoryIndians of North AmericaGovernment relations1869-1934Civil serviceSocial aspectsHistory.Indians of North AmericaCultural assimilationHistory.Indians of North AmericaGovernment relations323.1197/073Cahill Cathleen D1682095William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910822536403321Federal fathers & mothers4051958UNINA