Work of the Missionary Department of the Women's National Indian Association for the Year Ending December, 1892
Title | Work of the Missionary Department of the Women's National Indian Association for the Year Ending December, 1892 PDF eBook |
Author | Women's National Indian Association (U.S.). Missionary Department |
Publisher | |
Pages | 85 |
Release | 1893 |
Genre | Indians |
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Helen Hunt Jackson and Her Indian Reform Legacy
Title | Helen Hunt Jackson and Her Indian Reform Legacy PDF eBook |
Author | Valerie Sherer Mathes |
Publisher | |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | History |
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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 nineteenth-century Indian rights movement and details her crusade of traveling, writing, and lobbying government officials. Jackson's efforts culminated in the publication of A Century of Dishonor, an indictment of the government's Indian policy, and the novel Ramona, a sympathetic portrayal of the plight of California's Mission Indians. Her influence was felt immediately in the actions of subsequent reform workers in the Women's National Indian Association, the Indian Rights Association, and the Lake Mohonk Conference."--Pub. desc.
Amelia Stone Quinton and the Women's National Indian Association
Title | Amelia Stone Quinton and the Women's National Indian Association PDF eBook |
Author | Valerie Sherer Mathes |
Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
Pages | 307 |
Release | 2022-03-17 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0806190396 |
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 Quinton, like Helen Hunt Jackson, was a true force for reform and progress who was nonetheless constrained by the assimilationist convictions of her time. The WNIA, which Quinton cofounded with Mary Lucinda Bonney in 1879, was organized expressly to press for a “more just, protective, and fostering Indian policy,” but also to promote the assimilation of the Indian through Christianization and “civilization.” Charismatic and indefatigable, Quinton garnered support for the WNIA’s work by creating strong working relationships with leaders of the main reform groups, successive commissioners of Indian affairs, secretaries of the interior, and prominent congressmen. The WNIA’s powerful network of friends formed a hybrid organization: religious in its missionary society origins but also political, using its powers to petition and actively address public opinion. Mathes follows the organization as it evolved from its initial focus on evangelizing Indian women—and promoting Victorian society’s ideals of “true womanhood”—through its return to its missionary roots, establishing over sixty missionary stations, supporting physicians and teachers, and building houses, chapels, schools, and hospitals. With reference to Quinton’s voluminous writings—including her letters, speeches, and newspaper articles—as well as to WNIA literature, Mathes draws a complex picture of an organization that at times ignored traditional Indian practices and denied individual agency, even as it provided dispossessed and impoverished people with health care and adequate housing. And at the center of this picture we find Quinton, a woman and reformer of her time.
Missionary Work of the Women's National Indian Association
Title | Missionary Work of the Women's National Indian Association PDF eBook |
Author | Women's National Indian Association (U.S.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 8 |
Release | 188? |
Genre | Indians of North America |
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Missionary Work of the Women's National Indian Association and Letters of Missionaries
Title | Missionary Work of the Women's National Indian Association and Letters of Missionaries PDF eBook |
Author | National Indian Association. Missionary Committee |
Publisher | |
Pages | 19 |
Release | 1885 |
Genre | Indians of North America |
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Missionary Work of the Women's National Indian Association
Title | Missionary Work of the Women's National Indian Association PDF eBook |
Author | Women's National Indian Association (U.S.). Missionary Committee |
Publisher | |
Pages | 19 |
Release | 1885 |
Genre | Indians of North America |
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Christian Civilization and Missionary Work of the Women's National Indian Association
Title | Christian Civilization and Missionary Work of the Women's National Indian Association PDF eBook |
Author | Women's National Indian Association |
Publisher | |
Pages | 13 |
Release | 1887* |
Genre | Indians of North America |
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