凯思琳·d·卡希尔的开创性的新工作,
联邦父亲和母亲:美国社会历史的印度服务,1869 - 1933(UNC出版社,2011),生活的标题:这是一个社会历史在最好的意义上的术语。密切关注的人进行联邦印第安政策“在地上,”卡希尔发现一个矛盾的世界,傲慢和阻力通常单片西进运动和强制同化的故事。卡希尔向我们介绍迷人的角色像米妮布雷斯韦特,一位弗吉尼亚的上层阶级的女儿,不顾她的家人的意愿往西部和“教印度。”And then there's Esther Burnett Horne, a Shoshone woman fought colonialism even as she worked as an instructor for the Indian Service. "I wanted to provide [my students] with the same security and sense of self that my Indian teachers...had instilled in me," she wrote. Indeed, the role of American Indian labor in the Indian Service is one of the most surprising and important chapters in Cahill's work. While Cahill carefully describes the details of federal policy (the "intimate colonialism" which characterized so much of the Indian Service's work), she does not eschew bigger questions. By placing the Indian Service in the broader narrative of American political development, Cahill emphasizes the centrality of the federal assimilation campaign to the creation of the modern American welfare state. In
联邦政府的父亲和母亲,卡希尔微观和宏观平衡,这样做,意识到社会历史的承诺。