The Field Matrons on the Blackfeet Reservation, Progressive Era

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University of Montana PhD student Kymberly MacEwan has researched how field matrons on the Blackfeet Reservation visited families and instructed them in proper hygiene and “moral” lifestyles while providing varying forms of healthcare. In The Field Matrons on the Blackfeet Reservation, Progressive Era, she examines how the roles these women played in healthcare, assimilation, social conformity, and government surveillance were integral to the larger Progressive Sanitation Campaign.