A Century of Dishonor (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

by Helen Hunt Jackson, Grace Mary Gouveia (Introduction)

Overview

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.

Through A Century of Dishonor, Helen Hunt Jackson sought to galvanize the American nation against the United States federal government’s Native American treaty abuses. She combed the archives of the Astor Library in New York and studied the official reports of the War Department and the Department of the Interior, in effort to give Native Americans back their “humanity” in the eyes of whites. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411467262
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble
Publication date:	03/13/2012
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	464
Sales rank:	1,016,244
File size:	605 KB
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Born on October 14, 1830, Helen Hunt Jackson had a strong, orthodox Calvinist upbringing. Throughout the years, she used various pseudonyms, and published over three hundred poems and prose articles for the Independent, in addition to the travel essays, reviews, and children’s stories she wrote for other publications.