Bøger af Valerie Sherer Mathes

Californiaas Wine Country, its rolling hills studded with ancient oaks and laced with vines. Tourists flock to the charming, historic towns in the aValley of the Moon,a from Kenwood in the north to Schellville in the south. The town of Sonoma may be the birthplace of the State of California. Its central plaza, designed as a parade ground by Mexican general Mariano Vallejo and still ringed by mid-19th century buildings, was the site of the 1846 Bear Flag Revolt. Since 1823, when Mission San Francisco Solano, the last link in the long chain of California missions, was established here, to the famous present-day wineries, restaurants, and shops, Sonoma Valley has been treasured by residents and visitors alike.

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.

Offering a portrait of the Mission Indian agents of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Reservations, Removal, and Reform reveals how individual agents interpreted charge, and how their actions and attitudes affected the lives of the Mission Indians of Southern California.

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.