Helen Hunt Jackson and Her Indian Reform Legacy - Softcover

Mathes, Valerie Sherer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0806129638 ISBN 13: 9780806129631

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Valerie Sherer Mathes is a faculty member in the Social Science Department at 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.

Review:

“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

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0806129638
• ISBN 13: 9780806129631
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256