White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940

by Margaret D. Jacobs

Book Overview

Winner of the 2010 Bancroft Prize
Winner of the 2010 Athearn Western History Association Prize
Winner of the 2010 Armitage-Jameson Prize

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080323516X
• ISBN13: 9780803235168
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"