Refusing Settler Domesticity : Native Women's Labor and Resistance in the Bay Area Outing Program / Caitlin Keliiaa, Charlotte Coté, and Coll Thrush.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keliiaa, Caitlin, author.

Coté, Charlotte, author.

Thrush, Coll, author.

Series:

Indigenous confluences.

Indigenous Confluences Series

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.

Indigenous people--Cultural assimilation--California--San Francisco Bay Area--History--20th century.

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

San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.).

Local Subjects:

Indigenous people--Cultural assimilation--California--San Francisco Bay Area--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2024]

Summary:

Refusing Settler Domesticity by Caitlin Keliiaa examines the coercive Bay Area Outing Program that, in the early twentieth century, recruited over a thousand Native girls and women to serve as domestic workers across the San Francisco Bay Area. These women, often removed from their communities, faced oppressive conditions, yet they resisted various forms of exploitation, including Indian child removal and sexual surveillance. Keliiaa highlights the strategies employed by Native women to assert their agency and forge social connections. The book connects these experiences to broader themes of forced Native labor and federal policies, expanding the discourse on Indian boarding schools and urban Indians. Aimed at scholars and general readers interested in Native American history, gender studies, and labor history, the book provides a critical narrative of resistance against settler domesticity. Generated by AI.

Contents:

Domestic Labor in California, 1769-1940

The Bay Area Outing Program: A Promise and a Predicament

"Indian Girls Prefer Park to Housework": Criminalization, Surveillance, and Runaways

Breaking the Family: Outing Mothers and Indian Child Removal

Scales of Containment, Sexual Surveillance, and Bodily Regulation

The Failure of Indian Health Care: A Negligent Privilege.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780295752990

0295752998

OCLC:

1460465620