{"product_id":"divinely-guided-revisited-the-womens-national-indian-association-beyond-california-9781682832585","title":"Divinely Guided Revisited: The Women's National Indian Association Beyond California","description":"The Women's National Indian\u003cbr\u003eAssociation (WNIA) was a volunteer organization of middle- and upper-class white\u003cbr\u003ewomen that grew out of Philadelphia's First Baptist Church's Home Missionary\u003cbr\u003eSociety in 1877. The WNIA initially served as a reform association until the\u003cbr\u003eIndian Rights Association took over much of its political work, enabling members\u003cbr\u003eto return to their missionary roots and fund more than sixty mission stations\u003cbr\u003eacross the country. It lasted until 1951. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Although\u003cbr\u003emost often viewed as simply an Indian reform association, WNIA members also\u003cbr\u003eengaged in broad philanthropic and humanitarian non-Indian work and were at times\u003cbr\u003eable to rise above Indian reformers' negative assimilationist policy and fund\u003cbr\u003emodern reservation hospitals, promote Native arts, purchase homes for landless\u003cbr\u003eIndians of Northern California, and establish a missionary station actually requested\u003cbr\u003eby a small Mission Indian group. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The leading expert on the WNIA, Valerie\u003cbr\u003eSherer Mathes rigorously documents their progressive efforts to present a\u003cbr\u003ebalanced history of the organization, ensuring their legacy alongside other\u003cbr\u003evolunteer groups such as the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the National\u003cbr\u003eWoman Suffrage Association, the American Woman Suffrage Association, and the\u003cbr\u003eGeneral Federation of Women's Clubs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMathes, Valerie Sherer:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eValerie Sherer Mathes\u003c\/b\u003e, professor emerita of City College of San Francisco, is the author of numerous books on the Indian reform movement, including \u003ci\u003eAmelia Stone Quinton and the Women's National Indian Reform Association: A Legacy of Indian Reform\u003c\/i\u003e (2022) and \u003ci\u003eCharles C. Painter: The Life of an Indian Reform Advocate\u003c\/i\u003e (2020), and coauthor with Phil Brigandi \u003ci\u003eof Reservations, Removal, and Reform: The Mission Indian Agents of Southern California, 1878-1909\u003c\/i\u003e (2018). She is also the author and editor of books on Helen Hunt Jackson's Indian reform legacy and more than sixty articles.","brand":"Texas Tech University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51705323749650,"sku":"9781682832585","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4e93c2ae-4cd6-4b59-ae0c-4c8dbd08123d.jpg?v=1762345619","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/divinely-guided-revisited-the-womens-national-indian-association-beyond-california-9781682832585","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}