{"title":"Valerie Sherer Mathes","description":"Valerie Sherer Mathes is professor emerita of history at City College of San Francisco. She is the author of numerous books, including Divinely Guided Revisited: The Women's National Indian Association Beyond California, Amelia Stone Quinton and the Women's National Indian Association: A Legacy of Indian Reform, and Charles C. Painter: The Life of an Indian Reform Advocate.","products":[{"product_id":"sonoma-valley-paperback","title":"Sonoma Valley - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eCalifornia's Wine Country, its rolling hills studded with ancient oaks and laced with vines. Tourists flock to the charming, historic towns in the Valley of the Moon, from Kenwood in the north to Schellville in the south. The town of Sonoma may be the birthplace of the State of California. Its central plaza, designed as a parade ground by Mexican general Mariano Vallejo and still ringed by mid-19th century buildings, was the site of the 1846 Bear Flag Revolt. Since 1823, when Mission San Francisco Solano, the last link in the long chain of California missions, was established here, to the famous present-day wineries, restaurants, and shops, Sonoma Valley has been treasured by residents and visitors alike.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51366074155231,"sku":"9780738529431","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/ZkqMblDaRf9780738529431.webp?v=1789080760"},{"product_id":"divinely-guided-revisited-the-womens-national-indian-association-beyond-california-paperback","title":"Divinely Guided Revisited: The Women's National Indian Association Beyond California - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Women's National Indian\u003cbr\u003eAssociation (WNIA) was a volunteer organization of middle- and upper-class white\u003cbr\u003ewomen that grew out of Philadelphia's First Baptist Church's Home Missionary\u003cbr\u003eSociety in 1877. The WNIA initially served as a reform association until the\u003cbr\u003eIndian Rights Association took over much of its political work, enabling members\u003cbr\u003eto return to their missionary roots and fund more than sixty mission stations\u003cbr\u003eacross the country. It lasted until 1951.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Although\u003cbr\u003emost often viewed as simply an Indian reform association, WNIA members also\u003cbr\u003eengaged in broad philanthropic and humanitarian non-Indian work and were at times\u003cbr\u003eable to rise above Indian reformers' negative assimilationist policy and fund\u003cbr\u003emodern reservation hospitals, promote Native arts, purchase homes for landless\u003cbr\u003eIndians of Northern California, and establish a missionary station actually requested\u003cbr\u003eby a small Mission Indian group. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The leading expert on the WNIA, Valerie\u003cbr\u003eSherer Mathes rigorously documents their progressive efforts to present a\u003cbr\u003ebalanced history of the organization, ensuring their legacy alongside other\u003cbr\u003evolunteer groups such as the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the National\u003cbr\u003eWoman Suffrage Association, the American Woman Suffrage Association, and the\u003cbr\u003eGeneral Federation of Women's Clubs.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51368439840991,"sku":"9781682832585","price":64.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Fj0lE1v6FV9781682832585.webp?v=1789128423"},{"product_id":"mary-louise-eldridge-missionary-and-field-matron-to-the-navajos-hardcover","title":"Mary Louise Eldridge: Missionary and Field Matron to the Navajos - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the fall of 1891 Mary Louise Eldridge and Mary Raymond were sent by the Women's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church to work among the Navajos living along the San Juan River in northern New Mexico. There they founded the Navajo Methodist Mission, which later moved near Farmington. After Raymond's unexpected death, Eldridge was appointed to replace her as a government field matron, and with the support of the Cambridge Indian Association, an auxiliary of the Women's National Indian Association, Eldridge supervised Navajo men in digging the Cambridge Ditch and their wives in weaving blankets in industrial rooms supported by the WNIA's Indian Industries League. Before Eldridge retired in 1915, she supervised the founding of six WNIA missionary stations on the reservation. One scholar described her as nurse, farmer, civil engineer for irrigation projects, trader, hospital administrator, fund raiser, policy advocate, cottage industry entrepreneur, and adoptive mother--duties far exceeding the government's vision of a field matron.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis biography with selected letters is the first history of Eldridge's WNIA-funded missionary work. It opens a critical window into social reform efforts among Native peoples in the American Southwest, the predicament of the Navajo Nation after their return from incarceration at Bosque Redondo, and the coercive assimilationist policies enacted against resistant Native peoples in the Dawes Act era.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51368980873439,"sku":"9781496246684","price":113.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/jd86ewqddl9781496246684.webp?v=1789135996"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/valerie-sherer-mathes.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}