By Cathleen D. Cahill
Tested in 1824, the us Indian provider (USIS), referred to now because the Bureau of Indian Affairs, used to be the business enterprise accountable for accomplishing U.S. treaty and belief duties to American Indians, however it additionally sought to "civilize" and assimilate them. In Federal Fathers and Mothers, Cathleen Cahill deals the 1st in-depth social historical past of the corporation in the course of the peak of its assimilation efforts within the overdue 19th and early 20th centuries. Cahill indicates how the USIS pursued a technique of intimate colonialism, utilizing staff as surrogate mom and dad and version households so that it will shift local american citizens' allegiances from tribal kinship networks to Euro-American familial buildings and, finally, the U.S. government.
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