Divinely Guided - The California Work of the Women's National Indian Association

Informationen zum Autor Valerie Sherer Mathes teaches history at City College of San Francisco. She is also the author of Helen Hunt Jackson and Her Indian Reform Legacy , coauthor (with Richard Lowitt) of The Standing Bear Controversy: Prelude to Indian Reform , and editor of The Indian Reform Letters of Helen Hunt Jackson . Klappentext Founded in Philadelphia in 1879, the WNIA devoted seventy years to working among Native women. Bucking society's narrow sense of women's appropriate sphere, WNIA members across the U.S. built homes, missionary cottages, schools, and chapels, and sponsored teachers and physicians - all with a strong dose of Christianity. Mathes's recovery of WNIA history, supported by a wealth of documentation, reveals much about an era's sense of sphere, service, and sisterhood. Zusammenfassung "Examines the decades-long missionary work of the Women's National Indian Association! founded in 1879! among Native populations in California"--Provided by publisher.

Product details

• Authors: Valerie Sherer Mathes
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.04.2012
• EAN: 9780896727458
• ISBN: 978-0-89672-745-8
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Women, Gender, and the West; Women, Gender, and the West
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous