Valerie Sherer Mathes

Valerie Sherer Mathes is a professor emerita at City College of San Francisco, where for over forty years she has taught American Indian history, history of the American West, and U.S. history. She is the author of Helen Hunt Jackson and Her Indian Reform Legacy and Divinely Guided: The California Work of the Women’s National Indian Association, and she is the coauthor of The Standing Bear Controversy: Prelude to Indian Reform.