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Helen Hunt Jackson (A Century of Dishonor) (second)

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3. Helen Hunt Jackson (A Century of Dishonor)

Helen Hunt Jackson was a nineteenth century author from Massachusetts. In 1881, she published A Century of Dishonor, a comprehensive report of Native American Indian abuse by the government. She also wrote the novel Ramona in 1884, romance about California Indians.. She helped bring awareness to the civil injustice brought on the Natives.

 

Sources: American Pageant pp596

http://americanhistory.abc-clio.com/Search/Display/298749?terms=helen+hunt+jackson

http://americanhistory.abc-clio.com/Search/Display/247118?terms=helen+hunt+jackson

http://americanhistory.abc-clio.com/Search/Display/272521?terms=helen+hunt+jackson

 

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Comments (3)

cherisse said

at 8:16 pm on Jan 26, 2011

what sparked the writing of this book is that she heard from the ponca chief that the government forcibly moved them out of their homeland and relocated to the Dakota Nebraska border where a lot of them died of diseases. And when the survivors plus the ponca chief tried to return to their homeland they were pursued my the military arrested and sent back.

Yuxuan Liu said

at 8:41 pm on Jan 26, 2011

Nice definition. Interestingly, her novel was probably out of place with the literature of her time, as people transitioned from Romanticism to Realism.

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