Description: 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.
Brief description: 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).
Review Quotes: The collection of chapters that makes up this important re-examination of the Women's National Indian Association (WNIA) offers a compelling and complex analysis of Indigenous and White women's activism.--Sarah Eppler Janda, Southwestern Historical Quarterly