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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Cathleen D Cahill; William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies. |
| ISBN: | 9780807834725 0807834726 |
| OCLC Number: | 668197742 |
| Notes: | "Published in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University." |
| Description: | xv, 368 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm. |
| 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. |
| Series Title: | First peoples (2010) |
| Other Titles: | Federal fathers and mothers |
| Responsibility: | Cathleen D. Cahill. |
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