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The Commissioner of Indian Affairs stresses the importance of adopting white gender roles.

1892

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In addressing Native assimilation policies, the commissioner stresses that: "under the rule upon which family is constructed among civilized nations, the predominant principle is descent through the father."

In this era, a strict patriarchal gender division is evident throughout efforts for social reform in both the South and North, as well as across "Indian country."