The Women's National Indian Association : a history / edited by Valerie Sherer Mathes.
Contributor(s): Mathes, Valerie Sherer [editor.].
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BookPublisher: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2015]Edition: First edition.Description: 1 online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780826355645; 0826355641; 0826355633; 9780826355638.Subject(s): Women's National Indian Association (U.S.) | Women social reformers -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Women political activists -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Women -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Indians of North America -- Cultural assimilation | Women's National Indian Association (U.S.) | POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays | POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General | POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National | POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference | Women's National Indian Association (U.S.) | Indians of North America -- Cultural assimilation | Women political activists | Women -- Political activity | Women social reformers | United States | 1800-1899Genre/Form: Electronic books. | History.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Women's National Indian Association : A History.DDC classification: 320.0820973 Online resources: Concordia University of Edmonton Access (Unlimited Concurrent Users) from Ebook Central Academic Complete | Ebook Library | ebrary | EBSCOhost | Grande Prairie Regional College Access (Unlimited Concurrent Users) from Ebook Central Academic Complete | MacEwan University Access (Unlimited Concurrent Users) from Ebook Central Academic Complete | MyiLibrary | Project MUSE | Red Deer College Access (Unlimited Concurrent Users) from Ebook Central Academic Complete | Available for ICC via Ebook Central. Click here to access. | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Foreword / Margaret Connell Szasz; Introduction: What Is a Woman Worth? / Larry E. Burgess; PART ONE: The Beginning; 1: Mary Bonney, Amelia Quinton, and the Formative Years / Valerie Sherer Mathes; 2: "Shall We Have a Periodical?": The Indian's Friend / Lori Jacobson; PART TWO: The WNIA and Domesticity; 3: "Environed by Civilization": WNIA Home-Building and Loan Department / Lori Jacobson; 4: Promoting Homemaking on the Reservations: WNIA Field Matrons / Lisa E. Emmerich; 5: WNIA Missions in the South / Rose Stremlau.
6: Making and Marketing Baskets in California / Cathleen D. CahillPART THREE: WNIA Auxiliaries; 7: The Banner Association: Twenty-Five Years in Massachusetts / Valerie Sherer Mathes; 8: WNIA Chapters in the South / Rose Stremlau; 9: The Redlands Indian Association: The WNIA in Southern California / Valerie Sherer Mathes; PART FOUR: Contextualizing the History of Women's Indian Reform Work; 10: "Noble Women Not a Few": The Lake Mohonk Conferences / Cathleen D. Cahill; 11: The WNIA in the Context of Women's History / Helen M. Bannan; 12: The WNIA and the Erotics of Reform / Lori Jacobson.
ConclusionAfterword: Gordon Morris Bakken; Appendix: WNIA Missionary Stations / Valerie Sherer Mathes; Bibliography; Contributors; Index; Back Cover.
Mathes's edited volume, the first book to address the history of the WNIA, comprises essays by eight authors on the work of this important reform group.
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