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
Edited by Valerie Sherer Mathes; Foreword by Albert L. Hurtado
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
The Women's National Indian Association
A History
Edited by Valerie Sherer Mathes
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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