Refusing settler domesticity : native women's labor and resistance in the Bay Area Outing Program / Caitlin Keliiaa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keliiaa, Caitlin, author.

Series:

Indigenous confluences

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indian girls--Social conditions--20th century.

Indian girls.

Indian women--Social conditions--20th century.

Indian women.

Forced labor--California--San Francisco Bay Area--History--20th century.

Forced labor.

Indians of North America--Cultural assimilation--California--San Francisco Bay Area--History--20th century.

Indians of North America.

San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)--Social conditions--20th century.

San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.).

Physical Description:

xix, 273 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2024]

Summary:

"In the early twentieth century, the Bay Area Outing Program coercively recruited over a thousand Native girls and women from boarding schools to labor as live-in domestic workers across the San Francisco Bay Area. Outing removed Native people from their communities and transferred them to white homes, farms, and businesses to work as menial laborers. In exchange for room, board, and meager pay, Native women and girls as young as twelve cooked, cleaned, and lived in the homes of their employers. Despite oppressive living and working conditions, Native women strategically resisted the worst aspects of outing, including Indian child removal, sexual surveillance, criminalization, and exploitation. Throughout, they forged social connections and navigated relationships to refuse domestication and assert their agency. In this groundbreaking work, Historian Caitlin Keliiaa examines Native women's lived experiences of federal policy and connects outing to the region's longer history of coerced Native labor. The book, as indictment, expands the existing work on Indian boarding schools, urban Indians, and the history of California and the West."--Page 4 of cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-266) and index.

ISBN:

0295753005

9780295753003

9780295752983

029575298X

OCLC:

1433003856

Publisher Number:

90100418117