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Charles C. Painter
The Life of an Indian Reform Advocate
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CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780806191034
Pub Date: November 2022
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
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.
Amelia Stone Quinton and the Women's National Indian Association
A Legacy of Indian Reform
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CA$74.95
ISBN: 9780806180274
Pub Date: March 2022
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
With reference to Quinton's voluminous writings-including her letters, speeches, and newspapers articles-as well as 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 healthcare and adequate housing. And at the center of this picture we find Quinton, a woman and reformer of her time.
Gender, Race, and Power in the Indian Reform Movement
Revisiting the History of the WNIA
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CA$81.00
ISBN: 9780826361820
Pub Date: October 2020
Imprint: University of New Mexico Press
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.
Charles C. Painter
The Life of an Indian Reform Advocate
Price:
CA$53.95
ISBN: 9780806166322
Pub Date: September 2020
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
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.
Reservations, Removal, and Reform
The Mission Indian Agents of Southern California, 1878-1903
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CA$49.95
ISBN: 9780806159997
Pub Date: June 2018
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
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.
Helen Hunt Jackson and Her Indian Reform Legacy
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CA$29.95
ISBN: 9780806129631
Pub Date: September 1997
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
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.
A Call for Reform
The Southern California Indian Writings of Helen Hunt Jackson
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CA$40.95
ISBN: 9780806143637
Pub Date: October 2015
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
This volume collects for the first time seven of her most important articles, annotated and introduced by Jackson scholars Valerie Sherer Mathes and Phil Brigandi. Valuable as eyewitness accounts of Mission Indian life in Southern California in the 1880s, the articles also offer insight into Jackson's career.
The Indian Reform Letters of Helen Hunt Jackson, 1879-1885
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CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780806151601
Pub Date: October 2015
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Helen Hunt Jackson's passionate crusade for Indian rights comes to life in this collection of more than 200 letters, most of which have never been published before. With Valerie Sherer Mathes's helpful notes, the letters reveal the behind-the-scenes drama of Jackson's involvement in Indian reform, which led her to write A Century of Dishonor and her protest novel, Ramona.
The Women's National Indian Association
A History
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CA$55.95
ISBN: 9780826355638
Pub Date: April 2015
Imprint: University of New Mexico Press
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.
Divinely Guided
The California Work of the Women's National Indian Association
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CA$53.95
ISBN: 9780896727458
Pub Date: April 2012
Imprint: Texas Tech University Press
Founded in Philadelphia in 1879, the Women?s National Indian Association 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 Indian homes, missionary cottages, schools, and chapels; supported government teachers and field matrons; and funded physicians?all with a strong dose of Christianity. Though goals of forced assimilation were as unrealistic as they were unsuccessful, WNIA?s contributions to the welfare of Native women were hardly insignificant, especially in California. In the north, they worked at the Round Valley and Hoopa Reservations and realized their most unusual undertaking?the funding of the Greenville Indian Industrial School. In the south they worked with the Native mission populations, where cultural similarities and greater proximity fostered unprecedented cooperation among WNIA workers. Amelia Stone Quinton, longtime WNIA president and editor of The Indian?s Friend, provides a consistent narrative thread, as does Helen Hunt Jackson in...
Charles C. Painter
The Life of an Indian Reform Advocate
CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780806191034
Pub Date: November 2022
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Amelia Stone Quinton and the Women's National Indian Association
A Legacy of Indian Reform
CA$74.95
ISBN: 9780806180274
Pub Date: March 2022
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Gender, Race, and Power in the Indian Reform Movement
Revisiting the History of the WNIA
CA$81.00
ISBN: 9780826361820
Pub Date: October 2020
Imprint: University of New Mexico Press
Charles C. Painter
The Life of an Indian Reform Advocate
CA$53.95
ISBN: 9780806166322
Pub Date: September 2020
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Reservations, Removal, and Reform
The Mission Indian Agents of Southern California, 1878-1903
CA$49.95
ISBN: 9780806159997
Pub Date: June 2018
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Helen Hunt Jackson and Her Indian Reform Legacy
CA$29.95
ISBN: 9780806129631
Pub Date: September 1997
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
A Call for Reform
The Southern California Indian Writings of Helen Hunt Jackson
CA$40.95
ISBN: 9780806143637
Pub Date: October 2015
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
The Indian Reform Letters of Helen Hunt Jackson, 1879-1885
CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780806151601
Pub Date: October 2015
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
The Women's National Indian Association
A History
CA$55.95
ISBN: 9780826355638
Pub Date: April 2015
Imprint: University of New Mexico Press
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.
Divinely Guided
The California Work of the Women's National Indian Association
CA$53.95
ISBN: 9780896727458
Pub Date: April 2012
Imprint: Texas Tech University Press