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  This first full account of Amelia Stone Quinton (1833–1926) and the organization she cofounded, the Women’s National Indian Association (WNIA), offers a nuanced insight into the intersection of gender, race, religion, and politics in our shared history. Author Valerie Sherer Mathes shows how Quinton, like Helen Hunt Jackson, was a true force for reform and progress who was nonetheless constrained by the assimilationist convictions of her time.
  
  The WNIA, which Quinton cofounded with Mary Lucinda Bonney in 1879, was organized expressly to press for a “more just, protective, and fostering Indian policy,” but also to promote the assimilation of the Indian through Christianization and “civilization.” Charismatic and indefatigable, Quinton garnered support for the WNIA’s work by creating strong working relationships with leaders of the main reform groups, successive commissioners of Indian affairs, secretaries of the interior, and prominent congressmen. The WNIA’s powerful network of friends formed a hybrid organization: religious in its missionary society origins but also political, using its powers to petition and actively address public opinion. Mathes follows the organization as it evolved from its initial focus on evangelizing Indian women—and promoting Victorian society’s ideals of “true womanhood”—through its return to its missionary roots, establishing over sixty missionary stations, supporting physicians and teachers, and building houses, chapels, schools, and hospitals.
  
  With reference to Quinton’s voluminous writings—including her letters, speeches, and newspaper articles—as well as to WNIA literature, Mathes draws a complex picture of an organization that at times ignored traditional Indian practices and denied individual agency, even as it provided dispossessed and impoverished people with health care and adequate housing. And at the center of this picture we find Quinton, a woman and reformer of her time.

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  • Kustantaja / Valmistaja University of Oklahoma Press
  • ISBN 9780806192918
  • Tuotekoodi 9780806192918
  • Alanimike A Legacy of Indian Reform
  • Kirjoittajat Valerie Sherer Mathes
  • Sarja Women and the American West
  • Kieli Englanti
  • Thema-luokitus Elämäkerrat: yleinen; Elämäkerrat: historiallinen, poliittinen ja sotilaallinen; Sukupuolentutkimus: naiset ja tytöt; Alkuperäiskansat; Historia; Yleinen historia ja maailmanhistoria; Amerikkojen historia; Sosiaali- ja kulttuurihistoria
  • Ilmestymispäivä 31.08.2026
  • Vuosi 2026
  • Tuoteryhmä Ulk historia, muistelmat
  • Tuotepääryhmä Ulkomaiset tietokirjat
  • Tuotelinja Kirjat
  • Sivumäärä 306
  • Pituus (mm) 229
  • Leveys (mm) 152
  • Korkeus (mm) 21
  • Paino (g) 620
  • Tuotemuoto Pehmeäkantinen
  • Tuoteturvallisuusyhteystiedot Mare Nostrum Group B.V., gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk
  • ALV 13,5%

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