Federal fathers & mothers
Subtitle: a social history of the United States Indian Service, 1869-1933
By: Cathleen D. Cahill
Contributors: William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies
Series: First peoples : new directions in indigenous studies
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780807834725; 9781469606811
Subjects: United States; Civil service; United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs; Government relations; Indians of North America; Officials and employees; Cultural assimilation; History
Other titles: Federal fathers and mothers
Notes: "Published in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. From Civil War to civil service; title: There is an honest way even of breaking up a treaty : the origins of Indian assimilation policy; title: Only the home can found a state : building a better agency; title: pt. 2. The women and men of the Indian Service; title: Members of an "Amazonian corps" : white women in the Indian Service; title: Seeking the incalculable benefit of a faithful, patient man and wife : married employees in the Indian Service; title: An Indian teacher among Indians : American Indian labor in the Indian Service; title: Sociability in the Indian Service; title: The Hoopa Valley Reservation; title: pt. 3. The progressive state and the Indian Service; title: A nineteenth-century agency in a twentieth-century age; title: An old and faithful employee : the Federal Employee Retirement Act and the Indian Service.