Writer Helen Hunt Jackson?s 1881 book A Century of Dishonor raised concerns about this:
Women?s rights
Treatment of African Americans
Immigration
Socialism
Treatment of Native Americans
Treatment of Native Americans.
Helen Hunt Jackson?s 1881 non-fiction work, A Century of Dishonor, raised concerns about the treatment of Native Americans. A poet and writer born in 1831, Jackson worked on a government investigation of the treatment of Mission Indians. Her 1884 novel Ramona was also about the plight of Indians in California. A lifelong friend of Emily Dickinson, Jackson, born in Amherst, Massachusetts, died in 1885.
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