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Divinely Guided

The California Work of the Women's National Indian Association

By: Valerie Sherer Mathes

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The California Work of the Women's National Indian Association

By: Valerie Sherer Mathes

Examines the decades-long missionary work of the Women's National Indian Association, founded in 1879, among Native populations in California"--Provided by publisher.

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Women, Gender, and the West

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0896727459

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Reservations, Removal, and Reform

The Mission Indian Agents of Southern California, 1878–1903

By: Valerie Sherer Mathes,Phil Brigandi

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Reservations, Removal, and Reform

The Mission Indian Agents of Southern California, 1878–1903

By: Valerie Sherer Mathes,Phil Brigandi

Inseparable from the history of the Indians of Southern California is the role of the Indian agent—a government functionary whose chief duty was, according to the Office of Indian Affairs, to “induce his Indian to labor in civilized pursuits.” Offering a portrait of the Mission Indian agents of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Reservations, Removal, and Reform reveals how individual agents interpreted this charge, and how their actions and attitudes affected the lives of the Mission Indians of Southern California. This book tells the story of the government agents, both special and regular, who served the Mission Indians from 1850 to 1903, with an emphasis on seven regular agents who served from 1878 to 1903. Relying on the agents’ reports and correspondence as well as newspaper articles and court records, authors Valerie Sherer Mathes and Phil Brigandi create a vivid picture of how each man—each a political appointee tasked with implementing ever-changing policies crafted in far-off Washington, D.C.—engaged with the issues and events confronting the Mission Indians, from land tenure and water rights to education, law enforcement, and health care. Providing a balanced, comprehensive view of the world these agents temporarily inhabited and the people they were called to serve, Reservations, Removal, and Reform deepens and broadens our understanding of the lives and history of the Indians of Southern California.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806161361

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9780806161365

Amelia Stone Quinton and the Women's National Indian Association

A Legacy of Indian Reform

By: Valerie Sherer Mathes

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Amelia Stone Quinton and the Women's National Indian Association

A Legacy of Indian Reform

By: Valerie Sherer Mathes

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.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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080619040X

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9780806190402

Charles C. Painter

The Life of an Indian Reform Advocate

By: Valerie Sherer Mathes

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Charles C. Painter

The Life of an Indian Reform Advocate

By: Valerie Sherer Mathes

Charles Cornelius Coffin Painter (1833–89), clergyman turned reformer, was one of the foremost advocates and activists in the late-nineteenth-century movement to reform U.S. Indian policy. Very few individuals possessed the influence Painter wielded in the movement, and Painter himself published numerous pamphlets for the Indian Rights Association (IRA) on the Southern Utes, Eastern Cherokees, California Indians, and other Native peoples. Yet this is the first book to fully consider his unique role and substantial contribution. Born in Virginia, Painter spent most of his life in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, commuting to New York City and Washington, D.C., initially as an agent of the American Missionary Association (AMA), later as an appointed member of the Board of Indian Commissions (BIC), and, most significant, as the Indian Rights Association’s D.C. agent. In these capacities he lobbied presidents and Congress for reform, conducted extensive investigations on reservations, and shaped deliberations in such reform bodies as the BIC and the influential Lake Mohonk conferences. Mining an extraordinary wealth of archival material, Valerie Sherer Mathes crafts a compelling account of Painter as a skilled negotiator with Indians and policymakers and as a tireless investigator who traveled to far-flung reservations, corresponded with countless Indian agents, and drafted scrupulously researched reports on his findings. Recounted in detail, his many adventures and behind-the-scenes activities—promoting education, striving to prevent the removal of the Southern Utes from Colorado, investigating reservation fraud, working to save the Piegans of Montana from starvation—afford a clear picture of Painter’s importance to the overall reform effort to incorporate Native Americans into the fabric of American life. No other book so effectively captures the day-to-day and exhausting work of a single individual on the front lines of reform. Like most of his fellow advocates, Painter was an unapologetic assimilationist, a man of his times whose story is a key chapter in the history of the Indian reform movement.

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384

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806168196

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9780806168197

Sonoma Valley

By: Valerie Sherer Mathes,Diane Moll Smith

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Sonoma Valley

By: Valerie Sherer Mathes,Diane Moll Smith

California's Wine Country, its rolling hills studded with ancient oaks and laced with vines. Tourists flock to the charming, historic towns in the "Valley of the Moon," from Kenwood in the north to Schellville in the south. The town of Sonoma may be the birthplace of the State of California. Its central plaza, designed as a parade ground by Mexican general Mariano Vallejo and still ringed by mid-19th century buildings, was the site of the 1846 Bear Flag Revolt. Since 1823, when Mission San Francisco Solano, the last link in the long chain of California missions, was established here, to the famous present-day wineries, restaurants, and shops, Sonoma Valley has been treasured by residents and visitors alike.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738529435

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9780738529431

City College of San Francisco

By: Julia Bergman,Valerie Sherer Mathes,Austin White

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City College of San Francisco

By: Julia Bergman,Valerie Sherer Mathes,Austin White

With an annual student population of more than 100,000, City College of San Francisco has educated one in seven city residents and has alumni in every state. A Depression-era dream of Archibald Cloud, the college opened in 1935 with 1,483 students and no central campus. Today the college not only has a main campus at Ocean and Phelan Avenues, but also has 10 others spread throughout San Francisco. Science Hall, designed by Timothy Pflueger, proudly stands on the hill, a visible landmark beckoning students to walk through its portals. Pflueger's dream also included the incorporation of art into his buildings. His organization of the Art in Action program at the 1939-1940 Golden Gate International Exposition on Treasure Island resulted in the acquisition of Mexican muralist Diego Rivera's Pan American Unity, as well as mosaics and sculptures by other artists that adorn Science Hall.

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0738581348

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The Standing Bear Controversy

Prelude to Indian Reform

By: Valerie Sherer Mathes,Richard Lowitt

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The Standing Bear Controversy

Prelude to Indian Reform

By: Valerie Sherer Mathes,Richard Lowitt

In this book Valerie Sherer Mathes and Richard Lowitt examine how the national publicity surrounding the trial of Chief Standing Bear, as well as a speaking tour by the chief and others, brought the plight of his tribe, and of all Native Americans, to the attention of the general public, serving as a catalyst for the nineteenth-century Indian reform movement"--BOOK JACKET.

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University of Illinois Press

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025202852X

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Reservations, Removal, and Reform

The Mission Indian Agents of Southern California, 1878–1903

By: Valerie Sherer Mathes,Phil Brigandi

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The Mission Indian Agents of Southern California, 1878–1903

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Amelia Stone Quinton and the Women's National Indian Association

A Legacy of Indian Reform

By: Valerie Sherer Mathes

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A Legacy of Indian Reform

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806190396

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The Standing Bear Controversy

Prelude to Indian Reform

By: Valerie Sherer Mathes,Richard Lowitt

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Prelude to Indian Reform

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Divinely Guided

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Reservations, Removal, and Reform

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Amelia Stone Quinton and the Women's National Indian Association

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Charles C. Painter

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Sonoma Valley

Sonoma Valley

City College of San Francisco

City College of San Francisco

The Standing Bear Controversy

The Standing Bear Controversy

Reservations, Removal, and Reform

Reservations, Removal, and Reform

Amelia Stone Quinton and the Women's National Indian Association

Amelia Stone Quinton and the Women's National Indian Association

The Standing Bear Controversy

The Standing Bear Controversy

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