Helen Hunt Jackson And Standing Bear

Author : Chris Enss
Publisher : TwoDot
ISBN 13 : 9781493053889
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Helen Hunt Jackson and Standing Bear written by Chris Enss and published by TwoDot. This book was released on 2021-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helen Hunt Jackson found fame as a novelist, poet, and champion of the rights of indigenous people the West in the nineteenth century. Her friendship with Chief Standing Bear of the Ponca--an activist for his people's rights--influenced her literary works and her tireless efforts on the part of American Indians. Jackson's friendship with Chief Standing Bear and her daring efforts to publish a book about the broken promises of the United States government made with the Native Americans is a compelling story. During the three years it took Jackson to write the book attempts were twice made on her life. There was a lot of speculation about who tried to kill her, including many politicians who resented her association with Chief Standing Bear and the book she was working on, but no one was ever charged with the crimes.

Author : Helen Hunt Jackson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Century of Dishonor written by Helen Hunt Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Helen Hunt Jackson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781420978674
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Century of Dishonor written by Helen Hunt Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helen Hunt Jackson was an American writer who most widely became famous as an activist to improve United States government treatment of Native Americans. In 1879 her interests turned to the Native Americans after hearing a lecture in Boston by Standing Bear, the Ponca Chief. He described the forceful removal of the Ponca from their reservation in Nebraska. Moved by the issues presented by Standing Bear, Hunt learned about the government defaulting on treaties, the removal of Indians to reservations, and the Indian Wars. Soon after Standing Bear's speech, she became an activist, investigating and publicizing government misconduct, circulating petitions, raising money, and writing letters to "The New York Times" on behalf of the Ponca. She gained the widest exposure with her novel, "Ramona", dramatizing the ill treatment by the U.S. government of Native Americans in Southern California. "A Century of Dishonor", published in 1881, was a direct response to the adverse effect of government actions towards the Native Americans. A copy was sent to each member of the U.S. Congress. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.

Author : Valerie Sherer Mathes
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252028526
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Standing Bear Controversy written by Valerie Sherer Mathes and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Valerie Sherer Mathes and Richard Lowitt examine how the national publicity surrounding the trial of Chief Standing Bear, as well as a speaking tour by the chief and others, brought the plight of his tribe, and of all Native Americans, to the attention of the general public, serving as a catalyst for the nineteenth-century Indian reform movement"--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Thomas Henry Tibbles
Publisher : Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ponca Chiefs written by Thomas Henry Tibbles and published by Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eyewitness account of the law suit that "first established Indians as persons within the meaning of the law."

Author : Kate Phillips
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520218048
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Helen Hunt Jackson written by Kate Phillips and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-04-03 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ramona, continuously in print for over a century, has become a cultural icon, but Jackson's prolific career left us with much more, notably her achievements as a prose writer and her work as an early activist on behalf of Native Americans. This long-overdue biography of Jackson's remarkable life and times reintroduces a distinguished figure in American letters and restores Helen Hunt Jackson to her rightful place in history.".

Author : Helen Hunt Jackson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806153725
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Indian Reform Letters of Helen Hunt Jackson, 1879–1885 written by Helen Hunt Jackson and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Valerie Sherer Mathes
Publisher : Women, Gender, and the West
ISBN 13 : 9780896727458
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Divinely Guided written by Valerie Sherer Mathes and published by Women, Gender, and the West. This book was released on 2012 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Examines the decades-long missionary work of the Women's National Indian Association, founded in 1879, among Native populations in California"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Helen Hunt Jackson
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ramona written by Helen Hunt Jackson and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Ramona" by Helen Hunt Jackson. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Helen Hunt Jackson
Publisher : Heyday Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Separate Star written by Helen Hunt Jackson and published by Heyday Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known for the books A Century of Dishonor and Ramona, Helen Hunt Jackson was revered for her depictions of social issues facing the West at the end of the nineteenth century. At a time when women writers were still uncommon, her work spanned two decades and ranged from anonymous pieces of travel writing to poetry, romantic fiction, childrens literature, and parenting advice. She rose to fame, however, not through popular literature but through tracts, novels, and articles on the social and living conditions of Native Americans after a century of dealing with the U.S. government and American settlers.