TY - BOOK AU - Jacobs,Margaret D. TI - White mother to a dark race: settler colonialism, maternalism, and the removal of indigenous children in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940 SN - 0803224575 AV - E98.C89 J33 2009eb U1 - 305.89/915 22 PY - 2009///] CY - Lincoln [Nebraska] PB - University of Nebraska Press KW - Indigenous peoples KW - Cultural assimilation KW - United States KW - Australia KW - Stolen generations (Australia) KW - Indian children KW - Children, Aboriginal Australian KW - Institutional care KW - Women, White KW - Women social workers KW - Autochtones KW - Acculturation KW - États-Unis KW - Australie KW - Générations volées (Australie) KW - Enfants indiens d'Amérique KW - Enfants australiens (aborigènes) KW - Soins en institutions KW - Blanches KW - Travailleuses sociales KW - social workers KW - aat KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE KW - Anthropology KW - Cultural KW - bisacsh KW - Discrimination & Race Relations KW - Minority Studies KW - fast KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-528) and index; Gender and settler colonialism in the North American West and Australia -- Designing indigenous child removal policies -- The great white mother -- The practice of indigenous child removal -- Intimate betrayals -- Groomed to be useful -- Maternalism in the institutions -- Out of the frying pan -- Challenging indigenous child removal N2 - In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, indigenous communities in the United States and Australia suffered a common experience at the hands of state authorities: the removal of their children to institutions in the name of assimilating American Indians and protecting Aboriginal people. Although officially characterized as benevolent, these government policies often inflicted great trauma on indigenous families and ultimately served the settler nations' larger goals of consolidating control over indigenous peoples and their lands UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=264672 ER -