The Indian Reform Letters of Helen Hunt Jackson, 1879-1885 - Softcover

Jackson, Helen Hunt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0806151609 ISBN 13: 9780806151601

Verlag: University of Oklahoma Press, 2015

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Helen Hunt Jackson's passionate crusade for Indian rights comes to life in this collection of more than 200 letters, most of which have never been published before. With Valerie Sherer Mathes's helpful notes, the letters reveal the behind-the-scenes drama of Jackson's involvement in Indian reform, which led her to write A Century of Dishonor and her protest novel, Ramona.

Ralph Waldo Emerson described Jackson as the ""greatest American woman poet."" These stirring letters will intrigue anyone interested in Indian affairs, nineteenth-century women's studies, or the social history of Victorian America, where Jackson made her mark despite the restrictions on women. Among her correspondents were Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Moncure D. Conway, Henry B. Whipple, Henry L. Dawes, Henry Teller, Carl Schurz, and of course, commissioners of Indian affairs and such prominent editors as Whitelaw Reid, Charles Dudley Warner, and Richard Watson Gilder.

The letters are presented in sections on the Ponca and Mission Indian causes, allowing readers to focus on the time period and Indian group of choice.

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HELEN HUNT JACKSON (1830-1885) (born Helen Maria Fiske) was an American poet and author who became an advocate for the improved treatment of Native Americans and other minorities by the United States government. Complementing A Century of Dishonor, Jackson also illustrated the plight of Native Americans trying to integrate into the white culture in a novel entitled Ramona.

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• Verlag: University of Oklahoma Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0806151609
• ISBN 13: 9780806151601
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 396
• Herausgeber: Mathes Valerie Sherer
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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