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Author Cahill, Cathleen D.

Title Federal fathers & mothers : a social history of the United States Indian Service, 1869-1933 / Cathleen D. Cahill
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 368 pages) : illustrations, map
Series First peoples : new directions in indigenous studies
First peoples (2010)
Contents 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
Summary Federal Fathers and Mothers: A Social History of the United States Indian Service, 1869-1933
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs -- History
United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs -- Officials and employees -- History
SUBJECT United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs fast
Subject Civil service -- Social aspects -- United States -- History
Indians of North America -- Cultural assimilation -- History
Indians of North America -- Government relations -- 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
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies.
LC no. 2010050773
ISBN 9780807877739
0807877735
9781469603032
1469603039
146960681X
9781469606811
Other Titles Federal fathers and mothers