Bøker av Valerie Sherer Mathes

This first full account of Amelia Stone Quinton (1833-1926) and the organisation she cofounded, the Women's National Indian Association, offers a nuanced insight into the intersection of gender, race, religion, and politics in our shared history.

No other book so effectively captures the day-to-day and exhausting work of a single individual on the front lines of reform. Like most of his fellow advocates, Charles Cornelius Coffin Painter was an unapologetic assimilationist, a man of his times whose story is a key chapter in the history of the Indian reform movement.

Examines how the national publicity surrounding the trial of Chief Standing Bear, as well as a speaking tour by the chief and others, brought the plight of his tribe, and of tribespeople across America, to the attention of the general public, serving as a catalyst for the nineteenth-century Indian reform movement.

This account details the last six years of Jackson's life when she struggled to promote the rights of American Indians displaced and dispossessed by the U.S. government. It places Jackson's work within the larger 19th-century Indian rights movement and it also describes her campaign.