 | White Mother to a Dark Race Subjects: Women social workers.; Women White.; Indian children; Children Aboriginal Australian; Indian children; Stolen generations (Australia); Indigenous peoples; Indigenous peoples; 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 nationsOCO larger goals of consolidating control over indigenous peoples and their lands. Margaret D. Jacobs is a professor of history and the director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program at the University of Nebraska--Lincoln. She is the author of Engendered Encounters: Feminism and Pueblo Cultures, 1879--1934 (Nebraska 1999). |
