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Standing Bear Controversy
PRELUDE to INDIAN REFORM
Av Valerie Sherer Mathes, Richard Lowitt
Inbunden, 2003
485 kr
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In the spring of 1877 government officials forcibly removed members of the Ponca tribe from their homelands in the southeastern corner of Dakota territory, relocating them in the Indian Territory in Oklahoma. When Ponca Chief Standing Bear attempted to lead a group of his people home he was …
Helen Hunt Jackson and Her Indian Reform Legacy
Häftad, 1997
264 kr
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Helen Hunt Jackson and Her Indian Reform Legacy is a detailed account of the last six years of Jackson's life (1879-1885), when she struggled to promote the rights of American Indians displaced and dispossessed by the U.S. government. Valerie Sherer Mathes places Jackson's work within the larger …
Call for Reform
The Southern California Indian Writings of Helen Hunt Jackson
Av Helen Hunt Jackson, Valerie Sherer Mathes m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
357 kr
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Journalist, novelist, and scholar Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-85) remains one of the most influential and popular writers on the struggles of American Indians. This volume collects for the first time seven of her most important articles, annotated and introduced by Jackson scholars Valerie Sherer …
Indian Reform Letters of Helen Hunt Jackson, 1879-1885
Av Helen Hunt Jackson, Valerie Sherer Mathes
Häftad, 2015
277 kr
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Helen Hunt Jackson's passionate crusade for Indian rights comes to life in this collection of more than 200 letters, most of which have never been published before. With Valerie Sherer Mathes's helpful notes, the letters reveal the behind-the-scenes drama of Jackson's involvement in Indian reform, …
Charles C. Painter
The Life of an Indian Reform Advocate
Inbunden, 2020
475 kr
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Charles Cornelius Coffin Painter (1833-89), clergyman turned reformer, was one of the foremost advocates and activists in the late-nineteenth-century movement to reform U.S. Indian policy. Very few individuals possessed the influence Painter wielded in the movement, and Painter himself published …
Amelia Stone Quinton and the Women's National Indian Association
A Legacy of Indian Reform
Inbunden, 2022
651 kr
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This first full account of Amelia Stone Quinton (1833–1926) and the organization she cofounded, the Women’s National Indian Association (WNIA), offers a nuanced insight into the intersection of gender, race, religion, and politics in our shared history. Author Valerie Sherer Mathes shows how …
Charles C. Painter
The Life of an Indian Reform Advocate
Häftad, 2022
284 kr
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Charles Cornelius Coffin Painter (1833–89), clergyman turned reformer, was one of the foremost advocates and activists in the late-nineteenth-century movement to reform U.S. Indian policy. Very few individuals possessed the influence Painter wielded in the movement, and Painter himself published …
Amelia Stone Quinton and the Women's National Indian Association Volume 2
A Legacy of Indian Reform
Häftad, 2026
331 kr
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This first full account of Amelia Stone Quinton (1833–1926) and the organization she cofounded, the Women’s National Indian Association (WNIA), offers a nuanced insight into the intersection of gender, race, religion, and politics in our shared history. Author Valerie Sherer Mathes shows how …
Gender, Race, and Power in the Indian Reform Movement
Revisiting the History of the WNIA
Inbunden, 2020
1109 kr
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Founded in the late nineteenth century, the Women's National Indian Association was one of several reform associations that worked to implement the government's assimilation policy directed at Native peoples. The women of the WNIA combined political action with efforts to improve health and home …
Mary Louise Eldridge
Missionary and Field Matron to the Navajos
Inbunden, 2026
826 kr
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In the fall of 1891 Mary Louise Eldridge and Mary Raymond were sent by the Women's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church to work among the Navajos living along the San Juan River in northern New Mexico. There they founded the Navajo Methodist Mission, which later moved near …
Divinely Guided Revisited
The Women's National Indian Association Beyond California
Häftad, 2025
459 kr
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Reservations, Removal, and Reform
The Mission Indian Agents of Southern California, 1878-1903
Av Valerie Sherer Mathes, Phil Brigandi
Inbunden, 2018
427 kr
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Inseparable from the history of the Indians of Southern California is the role of the Indian agent - a government functionary whose chief duty was, according to the Office of Indian Affairs, to ""induce his Indian to labor in civilized pursuits."" Offering a portrait of the Mission Indian agents of …
Women's National Indian Association
A History
Inbunden, 2015
529 kr
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The Women’s National Indian Association, formed in response to the chronic conflict and corruption that plagued relations between American Indians and the U.S. government, has been all but forgotten since it was disbanded in 1951. Mathes’s edited volume, the first book to address the history of the …
Divinely Guided
The California Work of the Women's National Indian Association
Häftad, 2012
456 kr
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Founded in Philadelphia in 1879, the WNIA devoted seventy years to working among Native women. Bucking society’s narrow sense of women’s appropriate sphere, WNIA members across the U.S. built homes, missionary cottages, schools, and chapels, and sponsored teachers and physicians—all with a strong …
Divinely Guided Revisited
The Women's National Indian Association Beyond California
Häftad, 2025
565 kr
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