A Century of Dishonor (PDF)
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A Century of Dishonor exposes how various people, from the military personnel to the government official, viewed Native Americans. Jackson outlines treaties between the federal government and various Native American tribes, treaties that were supposed to...
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A Century of Dishonor exposes how various people, from the military personnel to the government official, viewed Native Americans. Jackson outlines treaties between the federal government and various Native American tribes, treaties that were supposed to protect the rights of the Native American people and “ensure” them title to their lands, but were broken by the United States Government. She also tells of massacres, citing letters written by members of the United States military, detailing the horrendous acts committed against Native American women and children. When it was published in 1885, A Century of Dishonor created such a stir that the U.S. Department of the Interior appointed Jackson and Abbot Kinney to investigate the conditions of Native Americans in missions in California.
Autoren-Porträt von Helen Jackson
Born a year after President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act of 1830, Helen Jackson would go on to become one of the most influential leaders in the fight for justice on behalf of Native Americans. Her parents died when she was still an adolescent, and although she lived the conventional life of a military wife for several years, her two sons and husband Edward Bissell Hunt soon died due to illnesses and accident. In 1866, the ever-buoyant Helen moved to Newport, Rhode Island, where her friendships with poet Emily Dickinson and author Thomas Wentworth Higginson influenced her decision to pursue a writing profession.Helen was afforded the opportunity to follow her interest in Native Americans by traveling the countryside when she married William Sharpless Jackson, a wealthy banker and railroad entrepreneur. During a visit to Boston in 1879, she attended a lecture by Chief Standing bear, which became the turning point in her life. She was thereby inspired to write A Century of Dishonor and Ramona, a novel heralded as the Uncle Tom’s Cabin of literature on the Native American experience. Helen was appointed special commissioner of Indian Affairs in 1882 by President Chester Arthur, and was the first woman to hold the position. She died of cancer on August 12, 1885.
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- Autor: Helen Jackson
- 2002, Englisch
- ISBN-10: 059408993X
- ISBN-13: 9780594089933
- Erscheinungsdatum: 03.07.2002
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