| Matrons and Maids: Regulating Indian Domestic Service in Tucson, 1914–1934 Subjects: Indians of North America -- Employment -- Arizona -- Tucson -- History -- 20th century; Household employees -- Arizona -- Tucson -- History -- 20th century; Tucson (Ariz.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century; Tucson (Ariz.) -- Economic conditions -- 20th; From 1914 to 1934 the US government sent Native American girls to work as domestic servants in the homes of white families. Matrons and Maids tells this forgotten history through the eyes of the women who facilitated their placements. During those two decades, "outing matrons" oversaw and managed the employment of young Indian women. In Tucson, Arizona, the matrons acted as intermediaries between the Indian and white communities and between the local Tucson community and the national administration, the Office of Indian Affairs. Victoria K. Haskins is an associate professor at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, where she is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow in History. She is the author of One Bright Spot and co-editor of Uncommon Ground: White Women in Aboriginal History . |