LEADER 04879oam 2200997Ma 450 001 9910798729503321 005 20230120053803.0 010 $a0816535957$b(electronic bk.) 010 $a9780816535958$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z0816521158 010 $z9780816521159$b(cloth ;$balk. paper) 024 8 $a40022060008 035 $a(OCoLC)960042030$z(OCoLC)959949934$z(OCoLC)960087283$z(OCoLC)1016843325$z(OCoLC)1055359821$z(OCoLC)1066610541$z(OCoLC)1081295655 035 $a(OCoLC)ocn960042030 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4699601 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000892339 100 $a20120830d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAt the border of empires $ethe Tohono O'odham, gender, and assimilation, 1880--1934 /$fAndrae M. Marak and Laura Tuennerman 210 $aTucson $cUniversity of Arizona Press$dİ2013 215 $a1 online resource (xiii, 209 pages) $cillustrations, maps 311 08$aPrint version: 9780816535958 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 191-204) and index. 330 $aThe story of the Tohono O'odham peoples offers an important account of assimilation. Bifurcated by a border demarcating Mexico and the United States that was imposed on them after the Gadsden Purchase in 1853, the Tohono O'odham lived at the edge of two empires.

Although they were often invisible to the majority cultures of the region, they attracted the attention of reformers and government officials in the United States, who were determined to "assimilate" native peoples into "American society." By focusing on gender norms and ideals in the assimilation of the Tohono O'odham, At the Border of Empires provides a lens for looking at both Native American history and broader societal ideas about femininity, masculinity, and empire around the turn of the twentieth century.

Beginning in the 1880s, the US government implemented programs to eliminate "vice" among the Tohono O'odham and to encourage the morals of the majority culture as the basis of a process of "Americanization." During the next fifty years, tribal norms interacted with--sometimes conflicting with and sometimes reinforcing--those of the larger society in ways that significantly shaped both government policy and tribal experience. This book examines the mediation between cultures, the officials who sometimes developed policies based on personal beliefs and gender biases, and the native people whose lives were impacted as a result. These issues are brought into useful relief by comparing the experiences of the Tohono O'odham on two sides of a border that was, from a native perspective, totally arbitrary.
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