The Women's National Indian Association : A History.

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword / Margaret Connell Szasz -- Introduction: What Is a Woman Worth? / Larry E. Burgess -- PART ONE: The Beginning -- 1: Mary Bonney, Amelia Quinton, and the Formative Years / Valerie Sherer Mathes -- 2: "Shall We Have a Periodical?": The Indian's Friend / Lori Jacobson -- PART TWO: The WNIA and Domesticity -- 3: "Environed by Civilization": WNIA Home-Building and Loan Department / Lori Jacobson -- 4: Promoting Homemaking on the Reservations: WNIA Field Matrons / Lisa E. Emmerich -- 5: WNIA Missions in the South / Rose Stremlau -- 6: Making and Marketing Baskets in California / Cathleen D. Cahill -- PART THREE: WNIA Auxiliaries -- 7: The Banner Association: Twenty-Five Years in Massachusetts / Valerie Sherer Mathes -- 8: WNIA Chapters in the South / Rose Stremlau -- 9: The Redlands Indian Association: The WNIA in Southern California / Valerie Sherer Mathes -- PART FOUR: Contextualizing the History of Women's Indian Reform Work -- 10: "Noble Women Not a Few": The Lake Mohonk Conferences / Cathleen D. Cahill -- 11: The WNIA in the Context of Women's History / Helen M. Bannan -- 12: The WNIA and the Erotics of Reform / Lori Jacobson -- Conclusion -- Afterword: Gordon Morris Bakken -- Appendix: WNIA Missionary Stations / Valerie Sherer Mathes -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.

Mathes's edited volume, the first book to address the history of the WNIA, comprises essays by eight authors on the work of this important reform group.

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