White mother to a dark race [electronic resource] : settler colonialism, maternalism, and the removal of indigenous children in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940 / Margaret D. Jacobs.

9780803224575 (electronic book)
9780803211001

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2009.

English

1 online resource (xxxii, 557 p.) : ill., maps.

E98.C89 J33 2009eb

305.89915

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, indigenous communities in the United States and Australia suffered a common experience at the hands of state authorities: the removal of their children to institutions in the name of assimilating American Indians and protecting Aboriginal people. Although officially characterized as benevolent, these government policies often inflicted great trauma on indigenous families and ultimately served the settler nations' larger goals of consolidating control over indigenous peoples and their lands.

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