Description: "A history of the Women's National Indian Association (WNIA), a volunteer organization promoting the US government's assimilationist Indian policy and performing broad philanthropic and humanitarian non-Indian work"-- Provided by publisher.
Brief description: Valerie Sherer Mathes, professor emerita of City College of San Francisco, is the author of numerous books on the Indian reform movement, including Amelia Stone Quinton and the Women's National Indian Reform Association: A Legacy of Indian Reform (2022) and Charles C. Painter: The Life of an Indian Reform Advocate (2020), and coauthor with Phil Brigandi of Reservations, Removal, and Reform: The Mission Indian Agents of Southern California, 1878-1909 (2018). She is also the author and editor of books on Helen Hunt Jackson's Indian reform legacy and more than sixty articles.