Helen Hunt Jackson and Her Indian Reform Legacy

by Valerie Sherer Mathes

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780806129631
Publisher:	University of Oklahoma Press
Publication date:	09/15/1997
Series:	American Studies Series
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.61(d)

About the Author

Valerie Sherer Mathes, Professor Emerita of City College of San Francisco. Among the books she has authored or edited are Helen Hunt Jackson and Her Indian Reform Legacy and The Indian Reform Letters of Helen Hunt Jackson.

Editorial Reviews

A valuable addition to the growing literature on Indian reform movements and the part women played in them.”—Francis Paul Prucha, Western Historical Quarterly


“An important contribution to the history of Indian reform, women, and the West.”—Sherry L. Smith, American Historical Review

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