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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mathes, Valerie Sherer, 1941- Author.

Series:

Women, gender, and the West

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

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

Indians of North America--Cultural assimilation--History.

Indians of North America.

Indian women--Political activity--United States--History.

Indian women.

Women political activists--United States--History.

Women political activists.

Women social reformers--United States--United States--Women social reformers.

Women social reformers.

Physical Description:

xiii, 370 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lubbock, Texas : Texas Tech University Press, [2025]

Summary:

"A history of the Women's National Indian Association (WNIA), a volunteer organization promoting the US government's assimilationist Indian policy and performing broad philanthropic and humanitarian non-Indian work"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : the dawn of an Indian reform movement

The founding of the WNIA

The founding of auxiliaries, the Foote sisters, and their Washington, DC, Auxiliary

Constance Goddard DuBois : mission Indians, basket making, and the Indian Industries League

New York reformers, the Brooklyn Indian Association, and their Montana Mission Station

WNIA physicians, medical missionaries, hospitals, and field matrons

Mary Louise Eldridge : missionary and field matron among the Navajo

William Henry Weinland : supervisor of the Ramona Mission

Cornelia and Anna Taber, and C.E. Kelsey of the NCIA

Dorcas J. Spencer : the Hupa Indians and the WCTU

Conclusion

Appendix. WNIA missionary stations.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version Mathes, Valerie Sherer, 1941- Divinely guided revisited

ISBN:

9781682832585

1682832589

OCLC:

1496520288