Divinely guided revisited : the Women's National Indian Association beyond California / Valerie Sherer Mathes.
| Author/creator | Mathes, Valerie Sherer, 1941- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Lubbock, Texas : Texas Tech University Press, [2025] |
| Description | xiii, 370 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Women, gender, and the West Women, gender, and the West. ^A1130318 |
| 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. |
| Abstract | "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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion Mathes, Valerie Sherer, 1941- Divinely guided revisited Lubbock, Texas : Texas Tech University Press, 2025 9781682832592 |
| LCCN | 2025008444 |
| ISBN | 9781682832585 |
| ISBN | 1682832589 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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