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Helen Hunt Jackson. 1830–1885. Online Archive of California. 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.
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.
A committed activist for Native American rights, Helen Hunt Jackson provides an important context for understanding Indian slavery and exploitation in the California region. Born Helen Maria Fiske to strict, Calvinist parents and orphaned in her teens, Jackson was raised and educated in female boarding schools in Massachusetts and New York.
San Francisco, California. Writer and activist for Native American rights. "Oh, write of me, not 'Died in bitter pains,' But 'Emigrated to another star!'" M ost widely remembered as an activist for Native American rights, Helen Hunt Jackson also wrote poetry, essays, novels, and children's stories.
Author and activist Helen Hunt Jackson. Library of Congress. Jackson’s book describes the poor treatment of seven Native American tribes in her book; the Delaware, the Cheyenne, the Nez Perce, the Sioux, the Poncas, the Winnebagoe, and the Cherokee.
Originally published in 1881, Helen Hunt Jackson chronicles the treatment of American Indians by the United States beginning in colonial times through to her present. The book can be broken down into four major themes: the mistreatment of seven major Native American tribes.
Helen Hunt Jackson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1830. She published five collections of poetry during her lifetime and was posthumously inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame in 1985, one hundred years after her death.
