Annual Report of the Massachusetts Indian Association
Author: Massachusetts Indian Association
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Published: 1906
Total Pages: 24
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Published: 1906
Total Pages: 24
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Women's National Indian Association
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Published: 1883
Total Pages: 818
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Published: 1886
Total Pages: 28
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Valerie Sherer Mathes
Publisher: UNM Press
Published: 2015-04-15
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0826355641
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Women’s National Indian Association, formed in response to the chronic conflict and corruption that plagued relations between American Indians and the U.S. government, has been all but forgotten since it was disbanded in 1951. Mathes’s edited volume, the first book to address the history of the WNIA, comprises essays by eight authors on the work of this important reform group. The WNIA was formed in 1879 in reaction to the prospect of opening Oklahoma Indian Territory to white settlement. A powerful network of upper- and middle-class friends and associates, the group soon expanded its mission beyond prayer and philanthropy as the women participated in political protest and organized successful petition drives that focused on securing civil and political rights for American Indians. In addition to discussing the association’s history, the contributors to this book evaluate its legacies, both in the lives of Indian families and in the evolution of federal Indian policy. Their work reveals the complicated regional variations in reform and the complex nature of Anglo women’s relationships with indigenous people.
Author: Women's National Indian Association (U.S.)
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Published: 1896
Total Pages: 864
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Valerie Sherer Mathes
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2022-03-17
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 080619040X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Valerie Sherer Mathes
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2020-10-01
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 0826361838
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Founded in the late nineteenth century, the Women’s National Indian Association was one of several reform associations that worked to implement the government’s assimilation policy directed at Native peoples. The women of the WNIA combined political action with efforts to improve health and home life and spread Christianity on often remote reservations. During its more than seventy-year history, the WNIA established over sixty missionary sites in which they provided Native peoples with home-building loans, founded schools, built missionary cottages and chapels, and worked toward the realization of reservation hospitals. Gender, Race, and Power in the Indian Reform Movement reveals the complicated intersections of gender, race, and identity at the heart of Indian reform. This collection of essays offers a new interpretation of the WNIA’s founding, argues that the WNIA provided opportunities for indigenous women, creates a new space in the public sphere for white women, and reveals the WNIA’s role in broader national debates centered on Indian land rights and the political power of Christian reform.
Author: Valerie Sherer Mathes
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0826355633
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Mathes's edited volume, the first book to address the history of the WNIA, comprises essays by eight authors on the work of this important reform group.
Author: Massachusetts Indian Association Cam
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Published: 2021-09-09
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9781014794116
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Author: United States. Board of Indian Commissioners
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Published: 1897
Total Pages: 154
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