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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.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 368 pages) : illustrations, map.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series First peoples : new directions in indigenous studies
First peoples (2010)
Note "Published in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs -- History.
United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs.
History.
United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs -- Officials and employees -- History.
United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs -- Officials and employees -- History.
Civil service -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
Civil service.
Social aspects.
United States.
Indians of North America -- Cultural assimilation -- History.
Indians of North America -- Cultural assimilation.
Indians of North America -- Government relations -- 1869-1934.
Indians of North America -- Government relations.
Chronological Term 1869-1934
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies.
Added Title Federal fathers and mothers
Other Form: Print version: Cahill, Cathleen D. Federal fathers & mothers. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2011 9780807834725 (DLC) 2010050773 (OCoLC)668197742
ISBN 9780807877739 (electronic book)
0807877735 (electronic book)
9781469603032 (electronic book)
1469603039 (electronic book)
9780807834725 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0807834726 (cloth ; alkaline paper)