Divinely Guided: The California Work of the Women's National Indian Association

by Valerie Sherer Mathes

Book Overview

Founded in Philadelphia in 1879, the Women's National Indian Association devoted seventy years to working among Native women. Bucking society's narrow sense of women's appropriate sphere, WNIA members across the U.S. built Indian homes, missionary cottages, schools, and chapels; supported government teachers and field matrons; and funded physicians--all with a strong dose of Christianity. Though goals of forced assimilation were as unrealistic as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896727459
• ISBN13: 9780896727458
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"