Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I. FROM CIVIL WAR TO CIVIL SERVICE; II. THE WOMAN AND MEN OF THE INDIAN SERVICE; III. THE PROGRESSIVE STATE AND THE INDIAN SERVICE; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Cahill offers the first in-depth social history of the United States Indian Service (now the Bureau of Indian Affairs) during the height of its assimilation efforts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The USIS pursued a strategy of intimate colonialism, using employees as surrogate parents and model families in order to shift Native Americans' allegiances from tribal kinship networks to Euro-American familial structures and, ultimately, the U.S. government
