Valerie Sherer Mathes

Valerie Sherer Mathes is a professor emerita of history at City College of San Francisco. Her published books include The Women’s National Indian Association: A History (UNM Press).

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Gender, Race, and Power in the Indian Reform Movement

Revisiting the History of the WNIA

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.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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The Women's National Indian Association

A History

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.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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