Federal fathers & mothers : a social history of the United States Indian Service, 1869-1933 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Cahill, Cathleen D.
Corporate Author:	William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2011]
Series:	First peoples (2010)
Subjects:	United States. > Bureau of Indian Affairs > History. United States. > Bureau of Indian Affairs > Officials and employees > History. Civil service > Social aspects > United States > History. Indians of North America > Cultural assimilation > History. Indians of North America > Government relations > 1869-1934.

Table of Contents:

Pt. 1. 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
pt. 2. 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
pt. 3. 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.