Author: Helen Hunt JacksonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
A Century of Dishonor
Author: Helen Hunt JacksonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Helen Hunt Jackson
Author: Kate PhillipsPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520218048
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Ramona, continuously in print for over a century, has become a cultural icon, but Jackson's prolific career left us with much more, notably her achievements as a prose writer and her work as an early activist on behalf of Native Americans. This long-overdue biography of Jackson's remarkable life and times reintroduces a distinguished figure in American letters and restores Helen Hunt Jackson to her rightful place in history.".
Helen Hunt Jackson and Her Indian Reform Legacy
Author: Valerie Sherer MathesPublisher:
ISBN: 9780806173481
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Helen Hunt Jackson and Her Indian Reform Legacy is a detailed account of the last six years of Jackson's life (1879-1885), when she struggled to promote the rights of American Indians displaced and dispossessed by the U.S. government. Valerie Sherer Mathes places Jackson's work within the larger nineteenth-century Indian rights movement and details her crusade of traveling, writing, and lobbying government officials. Jackson's efforts culminated in the publication of A Century of Dishonor, an indictment of the government's Indian policy, and the novel Ramona, a sympathetic portrayal of the plight of California's Mission Indians. Her influence was felt immediately in the actions of subsequent reform workers in the Women's National Indian Association, the Indian Rights Association, and the Lake Mohonk Conference.
A Calendar of Sonnets
Author: Helen Hunt JacksonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Calendars
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Letters from a Cat
Author: Helen Hunt JacksonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animal welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
A Call for Reform
Author: Valerie Sherer MathesPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806152745
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Journalist, novelist, and scholar Helen Hunt Jackson (1830–85) remains one of the most influential and popular writers on the struggles of American Indians. This volume collects for the first time seven of her most important articles, annotated and introduced by Jackson scholars Valerie Sherer Mathes and Phil Brigandi. Valuable as eyewitness accounts of Mission Indian life in Southern California in the 1880s, the articles also offer insight into Jackson’s career. The articles served as the basis for Jackson’s 1884 romantic novel, Ramona, still popular among Americans today. Jackson journeyed to Southern California in the 1880s to learn firsthand how Indians there lived. She found them in a demoralized state, beset by failed government policies and constantly threatened with losing their lands. The numerous articles and editorial responses she penned made her a leading voice in the fight for American Indian rights, a role she embraced wholeheartedly. As this collection also shows, Jackson’s fondness for Old California helped shape the region’s mythology and tourist culture. But her most important work was her influence in getting reservations set aside for the beleaguered Southern California tribes. Although her recommendations were not implemented until after her death, Helen Hunt Jackson’s stark and revealing portrait drew national attention to the effects of white encroachment on Indian lands and cultures in California and inspired generations of reformers who continued her legacy. This unprecedented collection offers fresh insight into the life and work of a well-known and influential writer and reformer.
Bits about Home Matters
Author: Helen Hunt JacksonPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Bits about Home Matters" by Helen Hunt Jackson. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
In Memoriam, Helen Hunt Jackson (H.H.)
Author: A Tribute in Memory of Helen Hunt Jackson (H.H.).
Author: A Separate Star
Author: Helen Hunt JacksonPublisher: Heyday Books
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Best known for the books A Century of Dishonor and Ramona, Helen Hunt Jackson was revered for her depictions of social issues facing the West at the end of the nineteenth century. At a time when women writers were still uncommon, her work spanned two decades and ranged from anonymous pieces of travel writing to poetry, romantic fiction, childrens literature, and parenting advice. She rose to fame, however, not through popular literature but through tracts, novels, and articles on the social and living conditions of Native Americans after a century of dealing with the U.S. government and American settlers.