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Title:

Gender, race, and power in the Indian reform movement : revisiting the history of the WNIA / edited by Valerie Sherer Mathes ; foreword by Albert L. Hurtado.

Publisher:

University of New Mexico Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

xiii, 270 pages : illustrations (black and white), portraits ; 24 cm

Subject:

Women's National Indian Association (U.S.)
Women's National Indian Association (U.S.)--History.
Women's National Indian Association (U.S.)
Indians of North America--History.--History.
Indians of North America--Government relations.
Indians of North America--Cultural assimilation.
Indian women--North America.
Indians of North America--Political activity.
Indians of North America--Government relations.
Indians of North America--Cultural assimilation.
Indian women.
North America.
History.

Other Authors:

Mathes, Valerie Sherer, 1941- editor.
Hurtado, Albert L., 1946- writer of foreword.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-259) and index.

Contents:

Index. Foreword / Valerie Sherer Mathes -- Introduction / WNIA missionary stations / Jane Simonsen -- Part 1. New interpretations / Chapter 1. From Indian territory to Philadelphia : a critical reexamination of the origins and early history of the Women's National Indian Association, 1877-1881 / John M. Rhea -- Chapter 2. Two Marys and a Martha : three Massachusetts Women and Indian reform in the 1880s / Curtis M. Hinsley -- Part 2. The national scene / Chapter 3. a place at the table : the Women's National Indian Association in the Indian Reform Arena / Valerie Sherer Mathes -- Part 3. the influence of Helen Hunt Jackson / Chapter 4. Her soul is marching on : Hlen Hunt Jackson's followers in the Indian reform movement / Phil Brigandi -- Chapter 5. In the shadow of Ramona : Frances Campbell Sparhawk and the fiction of reform / David Wallace Adams -- Part 4. From Philidelphia to Northern California : coast to coast reform Chapter 6. Mary Lucinda Bonney Rambaut : educator and Indian reformer / Valerie Sherer Mathes -- Chapter 7. C.E. Kelsey and California's landless Indians / Valerie Sherer Mathes -- Part 5. Indian women and self-determination / Chapter 8. "Your Indian friend" : Indigenous women and strategic alliances with the WNIA / Jane Simonsen -- Conclusion. "Indians can be educated" : the WNIA at the 1893 World's Colombian Exposition / Lori Jacobson -- Appendix. WNIA missionary stations / Valerie Sherer Mathes -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.

Summary:

"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. While male reformers worked primarily in the political arena, the women of the WNIA combined political action with efforts to improve health and home life and spread Christianity on often remote reservations. During its more than seventy-year history, the WNIA established over sixty missionary sites in which they provided Native peoples with home-building loans, supported the work of government teachers and field matrons, founded schools, built missionary cottages and chapels, and worked toward the realization of reservation hospitals. Gender, Race, and Power in the Indian Reofrm Movement reveals the complicated intersections of gender, race, and identity at the heart of Indian reform. Using gender as a lens of analysis, this collection of original essays offers a new interpretation of the WNIA's founding, arguing that the WNIA provided opportunities for Indigenous women to advance their own agendas, creates a new space in the public sphere for white women, and reveals the WNIA's role in broader national debates centered on Indian land rights and the political power of Christian reform"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

082636182X
9780826361820

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1152998158

LCCN:

2020939013

Locations:

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)