Description:
Valerie Sherer Mathes presents the biography and selected letters of missionary and federal field matron Mary Louise Eldridge about her tenure within the Navajo Nation in New Mexico Territory, revealing the predicament of Diné peoples in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Review Quotes:
"This enlightening biography of Mary Louise Eldridge added to Valerie Sherer Mathes's previous books makes Mathes the leading scholar on the Indian reform era of the late nineteenth century. With lively prose, the author illuminates the devoted missionary work of Eldridge among the Navajos during hard times. Everyone interested in Native history needs to read this book."--Donald L. Fixico (Shawnee, Sac and Fox, Muscogee, and Seminole), Regents' and Distinguished Foundation Professor of History, Arizona State University