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"Until the Mothers are Reached": Field Matrons on the Cheyenne and Arapaho Reservation

Description: Article describes the process of attempted cultural assimilation by field matrons sent to the Cheyenne-Arapaho Reservation in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Joel J. Schmidt explores the reasons for their failure, which included discrimination against the Indian women they were meant to teach.
Date: Winter 1996
Creator: Schmidt, Joel J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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