Divinely Guided Revisited: The Women's National Indian Association Beyond California - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Valerie Sherer MathesSeries:Women, Gender, and the WestPublish date:2025-08-21Pages:336
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Texas Tech University PressISBN-13:9781682832585ISBN-10:1682832589UPC:9781682832585Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Women, Native American, United StatesBook Topic:20th CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.86 inchesWeight:1.13Product ID:SC8KBWX42T
The Women's National Indian
Association (WNIA) was a volunteer organization of middle- and upper-class white
women that grew out of Philadelphia's First Baptist Church's Home Missionary
Society in 1877. The WNIA initially served as a reform association until the
Indian Rights Association took over much of its political work, enabling members
to return to their missionary roots and fund more than sixty mission stations
across the country. It lasted until 1951. Although
most often viewed as simply an Indian reform association, WNIA members also
engaged in broad philanthropic and humanitarian non-Indian work and were at times
able to rise above Indian reformers' negative assimilationist policy and fund
modern reservation hospitals, promote Native arts, purchase homes for landless
Indians of Northern California, and establish a missionary station actually requested
by a small Mission Indian group. The leading expert on the WNIA, Valerie
Sherer Mathes rigorously documents their progressive efforts to present a
balanced history of the organization, ensuring their legacy alongside other
volunteer groups such as the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the National
Woman Suffrage Association, the American Woman Suffrage Association, and the
General Federation of Women's Clubs.
Association (WNIA) was a volunteer organization of middle- and upper-class white
women that grew out of Philadelphia's First Baptist Church's Home Missionary
Society in 1877. The WNIA initially served as a reform association until the
Indian Rights Association took over much of its political work, enabling members
to return to their missionary roots and fund more than sixty mission stations
across the country. It lasted until 1951. Although
most often viewed as simply an Indian reform association, WNIA members also
engaged in broad philanthropic and humanitarian non-Indian work and were at times
able to rise above Indian reformers' negative assimilationist policy and fund
modern reservation hospitals, promote Native arts, purchase homes for landless
Indians of Northern California, and establish a missionary station actually requested
by a small Mission Indian group. The leading expert on the WNIA, Valerie
Sherer Mathes rigorously documents their progressive efforts to present a
balanced history of the organization, ensuring their legacy alongside other
volunteer groups such as the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the National
Woman Suffrage Association, the American Woman Suffrage Association, and the
General Federation of Women's Clubs.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Texas Tech University PressISBN-13:9781682832585ISBN-10:1682832589UPC:9781682832585Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Women, Native American, United StatesBook Topic:20th CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.86 inchesWeight:1.13Product ID:SC8KBWX42T
Mathes, Valerie Sherer: - Valerie Sherer Mathes, professor emerita of City College of San Francisco, is the author of numerous books on the Indian reform movement, including Amelia Stone Quinton and the Women's National Indian Reform Association: A Legacy of Indian Reform (2022) and Charles C. Painter: The Life of an Indian Reform Advocate (2020), and coauthor with Phil Brigandi of Reservations, Removal, and Reform: The Mission Indian Agents of Southern California, 1878-1909 (2018). She is also the author and editor of books on Helen Hunt Jackson's Indian reform legacy and more than sixty articles.
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