LEADER 03677nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910822536403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4696-0303-9 010 $a0-8078-7773-5 035 $a(CKB)2670000000095354 035 $a(EBL)716593 035 $a(OCoLC)731646881 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000522557 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11381426 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000522557 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10539186 035 $a(PQKB)11303627 035 $a(OCoLC)966913550 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse48580 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL716593 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10478391 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC716593 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4322000 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000095354 100 $a20101213d2011 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFederal fathers & mothers $ea social history of the United States Indian Service, 1869-1933 /$fCathleen D. Cahill 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aChapel Hill $cUniversity of North Carolina Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (385 p.) 225 1 $aFirst peoples : new directions in indigenous studies 300 $a"Published in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University." 311 $a1-4696-0681-X 311 $a0-8078-3472-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPt. 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. 330 $aEstablished in 1824, the United States Indian Service, now known as the Bureau of Indian Affairs, was the agency responsible for carrying out U.S. treaty and trust obligations to American Indians, but it also sought to ""civilize"" and assimilate them. In Federal Fathers and Mothers, Cathleen Cahill offers the first in-depth social history of the agency during the height of its assimilation efforts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.Making extensive and original use of federal personnel files and other archival materials, Cahill examines how assimilation practi 410 0$aFirst peoples (2010) 517 3 $aFederal fathers and mothers 606 $aCivil service$xSocial aspects$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aIndians of North America$xCultural assimilation$xHistory 606 $aIndians of North America$xGovernment relations$y1869-1934 615 0$aCivil service$xSocial aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aIndians of North America$xCultural assimilation$xHistory. 615 0$aIndians of North America$xGovernment relations 676 $a323.1197/073 700 $aCahill$b Cathleen D$01682095 712 02$aWilliam P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822536403321 996 $aFederal fathers & mothers$94051958 997 $aUNINA