Books by Margaret D. Jacobs

Explores the changing relationship between Anglo-American women and Pueblo Indians before and after the turn of the century. This title argues that the impetus for this transformation in perception rests less with Native peoples and with fundamental shifts in the ways Anglo-American women saw their own sexuality and social responsibilities.

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American Indians in the United States and Aboriginal people in Australia suffered a common experience at the hands of state authorities: the removal of their children to institutions in the name of assimilation. White Mother to a Dark Race examines the key roles white women played in these removal policies.