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Federal Fathers & Mothers: A Social History of the United States Indian Service, 1869-1933

Federal Fathers & Mothers: A Social History of the United States Indian Service, 1869-1933

Cahill, Cathleen D.

Paperback

Native American History20th Century United States History

ISBN10: 146960681X
ISBN13: 9781469606811
Publisher: Univ Of North Carolina Pr
Published: Feb 1 2013
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Established in 1824, the United States Indian Service (USIS), now known as the Bureau of Indian Affairs, was the agency responsible for carrying out U.S. treaty and trust obligations to American Indians, but it also sought to civilize and assimilate them. In Federal Fathers and Mothers, Cathleen Cahill offers the first in-depth social history of the agency during the height of its assimilation efforts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Cahill shows how 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.

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