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Helen Hunt Jackson ( pen name, H.H.; born Helen Maria Fiske; October 15, 1830 – August 12, 1885) was an American poet and writer who became an activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native Americans by the United States government. She described the adverse effects of government actions in her history A Century of Dishonor (1881).
Helen Hunt Jackson (born October 15, 1830, Amherst, Massachusetts, U.S.—died August 12, 1885, San Francisco, California) was an American poet, novelist, and advocate for Indigenous rights. She was the daughter of Nathan Fiske, a professor at Amherst College in Massachusetts. She married Edward Hunt in 1852 and lived the life of a young army ...
Helen Hunt Jackson. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to academic Calvinist parents, poet, author, and Native American rights activist Helen Hunt Jackson (born Helen Maria Fiske) was orphaned as a child and raised by her aunt. Jackson was sent to private schools and formed a lasting childhood friendship with Emily Dickinson. At the age of 21 ...
Helen Hunt Jackson (1830–85) was an accomplished poet, author, and activist in the nineteenth century. Many of Jackson’s written works, notably A Century of Dishonor (1881) and Ramona (1884), spurred progress toward recompense for the mistreatment of the Native American peoples by the US government.
Jackson is most famous for her work on behalf of Native Americans, including her books A Century of Dishonor and Ramona. Anonymous, Helen Hunt Jackson (c. 1875), courtesy of Colorado College, Tutt Library Special Collections. At the time of this portrait, Helen Hunt was a vocal advocate for Native American rights.
Helen Hunt Jackson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, in October 1830. Her full birth name was Helen Maria Fiske, and she was the daughter of Nathan Welby Fiske and Deborah Waterman Fiske. Her father worked in a variety of fields, including as a professor of Latin, Greek, and philosophy at Amherst College.
This week’s book is so inscribed, and is dated January 25, 1881. The book A Century of Dishonor by Helen Hunt Jackson, who wrote under the pen name “H. H.” is considered “the first serious study of US federal Indian policy” by scholars and her intent in writing it was to “do for Native Americans what Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle ...
