Making home work : domesticity and Native American assimilation in the American West, 1860-1919 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Simonsen, Jane E.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2006]
Series:	Gender & American culture.
Subjects:	Arts and society > West (U.S.) > History > 19th century. Arts and society > West (U.S.) > History > 20th century. Home economics > Cross-cultural studies. Social values > West (U.S.) Women > West (U.S.) > Social conditions. Indian women > West (U.S.) > Cultural assimilation.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction: Squaring the circle
Prairie heirs and heiresses : Native American history and the future of the West in Caroline Soule's The pet of the settlement
The house divided : race and class in the married woman's home
Object lessons : domesticity on display in Native American assimilation
The cook, the photographer, and her majesty, the allotting agent : unsettling domesticity in E. Jane Gay's Choup-nit-ki
A model of its kind : Anna Dawson Wilde's home in the field
Border designs : domestic production and cultural survival
Postscript: The map and the territory.