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Valerie Sherer Mathes

Author of Helen Hunt Jackson and Her Indian Reform Legacy

12+ Works 94 Members 1 Review

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Valerie Sherer Mathes teaches history at City College of San Francisco. She is also the author of Helen Hunt Jackson and Her Indian Reform Legacy, coauthor (with Richard Lowitt) of The Standing Bear Controversy: Prelude to Indian Reform, and editor of The Indian Reform Letters of Helen Hunt Jackson.

Works by Valerie Sherer Mathes

Helen Hunt Jackson and Her Indian Reform Legacy (1990) 29 copies

The Indian Reform Letters of Helen Hunt Jackson, 1879-1885 (1998) — Editor — 17 copies

The Standing Bear Controversy: Prelude to Indian Reform (2003) 9 copies, 1 review

Divinely Guided: The California Work of the Women's National Indian Association (Women, Gender, and the West) (2012) 8 copies

The Women's National Indian Association: A History (2015) 8 copies

Reservations, Removal, and Reform: The Mission Indian Agents of Southern California, 1878–1903 (2018) 7 copies

Sonoma Valley (2004) 6 copies

A Call for Reform: The Southern California Indian Writings of Helen Hunt Jackson (2015) — Editor — 5 copies

Amelia Stone Quinton and the Women's National Indian Association: A Legacy of Indian Reform (Volume 2) (Women and the American West) (2022) 2 copies

Helen Hunt Jackson and the Campaign for Ponca Restitution, 1880-1881 (1987) 1 copy

Wickaninnish, a Clayoquot Chief, as Recorded by Early Travelers 1 copy

Gender, race, and power in the Indian reform movement : revisiting the history of the WNIA (2020) 1 copy

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Ramona (1884) — Afterword, some editions — 860 copies, 19 reviews

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The Standing Bear Controversy: Prelude to Indian Reform by Valerie Sherer Mathes

The history surrounding Standing Bear, his trial and the reforms that resulted because of his actions.

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WILLA Literary Award

Divinely Guided: The California Work of the Women's National Indian Association (Women, Gender, and the West) (Finalist – Scholarly Nonfiction – 2013)

Helen Hunt Jackson and Her Indian Reform Legacy (Winner – Nonfiction – 1990)

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Also by: 1
Members: 94
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Reviews: 1
ISBNs: 23
Languages: 1

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