Divinely guided : the California work of the Women's National Indian Association / Valerie Sherer Mathes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mathes, Valerie Sherer, 1941-

Series:

Women, gender, and the West

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women's National Indian Association (U.S.).

Indians of North America--Missions--California--History.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Civil rights--California.

Women's National Indian Association (U.S.)--History.

Women missionaries--California--History.

Women missionaries.

History.

Indians of North America--Civil rights.

Indians of North America--Missions.

California.

Physical Description:

xvi, 392 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lubbock, Tex. : Texas Tech University Press, [2012]

Summary:

"Examines the decades-long missionary work of the Women's National Indian Association, founded in 1879, among Native populations in California"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Women's Early Indian Work 11

2 "Women's Work for Women": Founding of the Women's National Indian Association 24

3 The Women's National Indian Association Comes to Round Valley 51

4 Northern California Members and Their Work at the Hoopa Reservation 77

5 Greenville Indian Industrial School 101

6 Women's National Indian Association Work Continues in the North 127

7 The Indian Reform Work of Annie Ellicott Kennedy Bidwell 153

8 The WNIA Carries on Helen Hunt Jackson's Legacy 177

9 WNIA Missionary Work among the Cahuillas and at Martinez 204

10 A Hospital at Warner Ranch 231.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780896727267

0896727262

9780896727458

0896727459

OCLC:

749855380