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Refusing Settler Domesticity
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- Book Synopsis
- Winner of the 2025 Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Book Award, American Society for Ethnohistory Honorable Mention for the 2025 Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award Honorable Mention for the 2025 Pacific Coast Branch Award, American Historical Association Traces young Native women's lives and experiences as Bay Area domestic workersIn the early twentieth century, the Bay Area Outing Program coercively recruited over a thousand Native girls and women from boarding schools to labor as live-in domestic workers across the San Francisco Bay Area. Outing removed Native people from their communities and transferred them to white homes, farms, and businesses to work as menial laborers. In exchange for room, board, and meager pay, Native women and girls as young as twelve cooked, cleaned, and lived in the homes of their employers. Despite oppressive living and working conditions, they strategically resisted the worst aspects of outing, including Indian child removal, sexual surveillance, criminalization, and exploitation. Throughout, they forged social connections and navigated relationships to refuse domestication and assert their agency. In this groundbreaking work, historian Caitlin Keliiaa examines Native women's lived experiences of federal policy and connects outing to the region's longer history of coerced Native labor. Refusing Settler Domesticity explores the unexpected story of Native women in the Bay Area, decades before Indian Relocation, illuminating the women who helped shape the Bay Area Indian community as we know it today. This book, as indictment, expands the existing work on Indian boarding schools, urban Indians, and the history of California and the West.
- About The Author
- Caitlin (Katie) Keliiaa is assistant professor in the feminist studies department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She received her PhD from the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley in 2019. This would be her first book.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780295753003
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press, (11 November 2024)
- Number of Pages
- 298
- Weight
- 422 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 229 x 152 mm
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