Federal fathers & mothers : a social history of the United States Indian Service, 1869-1933 /

Cahill, Cathleen D.

Federal fathers & mothers : a social history of the United States Indian Service, 1869-1933 / Federal fathers and mothers Cathleen D. Cahill. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2011. - 1 online resource (xv, 368 pages) : illustrations, map - First peoples : new directions in indigenous studies . - First peoples (2010) .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 -- 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 -- 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.

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


English.

9780807877739 (electronic bk.) 0807877735 (electronic bk.) 9781469603032 (electronic bk.) 1469603039 (electronic bk.) (cloth ; alk. paper) (cloth ; alk. paper) 146960681X 9781469606811

22573/ctt7n3b8 JSTOR




United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs --History.
United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs --Officials and employees--History.
United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs.


1869-1934


Civil service--Social aspects--History.--United States
Indians of North America--Cultural assimilation--History.
Indians of North America--Government relations--1869-1934.
Indiens d'Amérique--Relations avec l'État--États-Unis--1869-1934.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Political Freedom & Security--Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Political Freedom & Security--Human Rights.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Ethnic Studies--Native American Studies.
Employees.
Indians of North America--Cultural assimilation.
Indians of North America--Government relations.


United States.


Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.

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