{"product_id":"federal-fathers-mothers-cathleen-d-cahill-9781469606811","title":"Federal Fathers \u0026 Mothers: A Social History of the United States Indian Service, 1869-1933","description":"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 \u003ci\u003eFederal Fathers and Mothers\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cathleen D. Cahill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 146960681X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781469606811\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.00d","brand":"Cathleen D. Cahill","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43985666015487,"sku":"9781469606811","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5d626561-5ef7-4df7-9ffd-d03494e8e538.jpg?v=1683278851","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/federal-fathers-mothers-cathleen-d-cahill-9781469606811","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}