Helen Hunt Jackson and her Indian reform legacy
By: Valerie Sherer Mathes.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Norman
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
Subjects: Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885 -- Political and social views.; Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885 -- Influence.; Indians of North America -- Civil rights -- California.; Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography.; Social reformers -- United States -- Biography.; Ponca Indians -- Government relations.; Indians in literature.
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-226) and index.
Originally published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 1990. With a new pref.