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

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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, indigenous communities in the US and Australia suffered a common experience by the hands of state authorities: the removal of their children to institutions in the name of assimilating American Indians and protecting Aboriginal people. Even supposing officially characterized as benevolent, these government policies Ceaselessly inflicted great trauma on indigenous families and in the end served the settler nations’ larger goals of consolidating keep an eye on over indigenous peoples and their lands.

White Mother to a Dark Race takes the study of indigenous education and acculturation in new directions in its examination of the key roles white women played in these policies of indigenous child-removal. Government officials, missionaries, and reformers justified the removal of indigenous children in particularly gendered ways by that specialize in the supposed deficiencies of indigenous mothers, the alleged barbarity of indigenous men, and the loss of a patriarchal nuclear circle of relatives. Ceaselessly they deemed white women the most appropriate agents to carry out these child-removal policies. Inspired by the maternalist movement of the era, many white women were eager to serve as surrogate mothers to indigenous children and maneuvered to influence public policy affecting indigenous people. Even supposing some white women developed caring relationships with indigenous children and others became critical of government policies, many became hopelessly ensnared on this insidious colonial policy.

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