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Southern Ute women : autonomy and assimilation on the reservation, 1887-1934

Author: Katherine Osburn
Publisher: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, ©1998.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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"After the passage of the Dawes Severalty Act in 1887, the Southern Ute Agency was the scene of an intense federal effort to assimilate the Ute Indians. The Southern Utes were to break up their common land holdings and transform themselves into middle-class patriarchal farm and pastoral families. In this assimilationist scheme women were to surrender the greater autonomy they enjoyed in traditional Ute society and to  Read more...
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Osburn, Katherine.
Southern Ute women.
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c1998
(OCoLC)607021003
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Katherine Osburn
ISBN: 0826318622 9780826318626 0826318630 9780826318633
OCLC Number: 37748526
Description: xiv, 165 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Responsibility: Katherine M.B. Osburn.

Abstract:

"After the passage of the Dawes Severalty Act in 1887, the Southern Ute Agency was the scene of an intense federal effort to assimilate the Ute Indians. The Southern Utes were to break up their common land holdings and transform themselves into middle-class patriarchal farm and pastoral families. In this assimilationist scheme women were to surrender the greater autonomy they enjoyed in traditional Ute society and to become house-bound homemakers, the "civilizers" of their fathers, husbands, brothers, and sons. This history of Southern Ute women shows that they accommodated Anglo ways that benefited them but refused to give up indigenous culture and ways that gave their lives meaning and bolstered personal autonomy. In spite of federal policies that stripped women of many legal rights, Southern Ute women demanded participation in political, economic, and legal decisions that affected their lives and insisted on retaining control over their marital and sexual behavior."--BOOK JACKET.

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