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Southern Ute Women
Katherine M. B. Osburn
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Description for Southern Ute Women
Paperback. Shows how Ute women accommodated Anglo ways that benefited them but refused to give up indigenous culture and ways that gave their lives meaning and bolstered personal autonomy. Num Pages: 208 pages, 2 maps, 2 tables, 13 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; ACBK; HBJK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 13. Weight in Grams: 295.
After the passage of the Dawes Severalty Act in 1887, the Southern Ute Agency was the scene of an intense federal effort to assimilate the Ute Indians. The Southern Utes were to break up their common land holdings and transform themselves into middle-class patriarchal farm and pastoral families. In this assimilationist scheme, women were to surrender the considerable autonomy they enjoyed in traditional Ute society and become housebound homemakers, the “civilizers” of their fathers, husbands, brothers, and sons. Southern Ute Women shows that these women accommodated Anglo ways that benefited them but refused to give up indigenous culture and ways ... Read more
After the passage of the Dawes Severalty Act in 1887, the Southern Ute Agency was the scene of an intense federal effort to assimilate the Ute Indians. The Southern Utes were to break up their common land holdings and transform themselves into middle-class patriarchal farm and pastoral families. In this assimilationist scheme, women were to surrender the considerable autonomy they enjoyed in traditional Ute society and become housebound homemakers, the “civilizers” of their fathers, husbands, brothers, and sons. Southern Ute Women shows that these women accommodated Anglo ways that benefited them but refused to give up indigenous culture and ways ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803220386
SKU
V9780803220386
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About Katherine M. B. Osburn
Katherine M. B. Osburn is a professor of history at Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville.
Reviews for Southern Ute Women
“[Southern Ute Women] makes a useful contribution to the growing body of scholarship on Native American women.”—Sara H. Hill, American Historical Review “Historians of American Indians have devoted insufficient attention to the distinctive experiences of Native American women, although in recent years a number of scholars have made strides in reversing that trend. With Southern Ute Women, Katherine Osburn helps ... Read more