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

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.

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

English.

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