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.