A Century of Dishonour Jackson Paperback Cambridge University Press

A Century of DishonourA Sketch of the United States Government's Dealings with Some of the North American Tribes\nAuthor(s): Helen Hunt Jackson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108072076, 978-1108072076\nSynopsis\nAuthor and activist Helen Hunt Jackson [tel] is remembered for her work in support of Native American rights. She was also a friend and correspondent of the poet Emily Dickinson, and her own verse was praised by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Her highly popular novel Ramona [tel] addressed discrimination against Native Americans, raising public consciousness as Harriet Beecher Stowe had done for slavery in Uncle Tom's Cabin [tel]. Jackson's novel emerged out of her passionate seeking of justice for her country's indigenous peoples. She describes decades of government-sanctioned mistreatment of Native Americans in this 1881 publication. The work introduces seven major tribes, their claims to an.