Collection on Helen Hunt Jackson, 1878-1880.

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Collection on Helen Hunt Jackson, 1878-1880.

Includes 2 letters from Jackson to Mr. Niles writing from Colorado Springs and Mr. Alden writing from Berkeley.

1 portfolio.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7148228

UC Berkeley Libraries

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Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885

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Helen Hunt Jackson (pen name, H.H.; born Helen Maria Fiske; October 15, 1830 – August 12, 1885) was an American poet and writer who became an activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native Americans by the United States government. She described the adverse effects of government actions in her history A Century of Dishonor (1881). Her novel Ramona (1884) dramatized the federal government's mistreatment of Native Americans in Southern California after the Mexican–American War and attracted co...