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  1. Helen Hunt Jackson's Colorado by Helen Hunt Jackson, Joseph T. Gordon, et all 1989-12
  2. Helen Hunt Jackson: A Literary Life by Kate Phillips, 2003-04-03
  3. Helen Hunt Jackson (Boise State University Western Writers Series ; No. 78) by Rosemary Whitaker, 1987-07
  4. Helen Hunt Jackson and Her Indian Reform Legacy (American Studies Series) by Valerie Sherer Mathes, 1990-07
  5. Ramona Memories: Tourism and the Shaping of Southern California by Dydia DeLyser, 2005-04-01

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23. Literary Encyclopedia: Jackson, Helen Hunt
Jackson, Helen Hunt (18301885). Poet, Novelist, Story Writer, Travel Writer,Children’s Writer, Journalist, Reformer. Active 1865-1885 in USA,
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Jackson, Helen Hunt (Jackson, Helen Hunt ). 18301885. Biography available Jackson, Shirley (Jackson, Shirley Hardie ). 1916-1965
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Jackson, Helen Hunt (18301885). Wikipedia Between Whiles (English); Bits aboutHome Matters (English); A Calendar of Sonnets (English); Mercy Philbrick s
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26. Mercy Philbrick's Choice By Helen Hunt Jackson - Project Gutenberg
Creator, Jackson, Helen Hunt (18301885). Title, Mercy Philbrick s Choice.Language, English. EText-No. 10519. Release Date, 2003-12-01. Copyrighted, No
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27. Creative Quotations From Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885)
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Fishing For Creativity
Creative Perfumes Find me the men on earth who care
Enough for faith or creed today
To seek a barren wilderness
For simple liberty to pray.
"That indescribable expression peculiar to people who hope they have not been asleep, but know they have." The mighty are brought low by many a thing
Too small to name. Beneath the daisy's disk
Lies hid the pebble for the fatal sling. "Oh, write of me, not "Died in bitter pains,"
But "Emigrated to another star!"" There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride. Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: ""The Pilgrim Forefathers," St. 5, n.d." R: ""Ramona ," Ch. 14, 1884." A: ""Danger," n.d." N: ""Emigravit," 1875); in "An American Anthology," by Edmund Clarence Stedman, 1906."

28. Biography Of Helen Hunt Jackson
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Writer, activist for Native Americans
As expressed in her devastating criticisms of federal Indian policy and white-Indian relations in A Century of Dishonor and the novel Ramona, Helen Hunt Jackson was one of the most influential defenders of Native American rights in late 19th-century America.
Introduction
In 1852, the vivaciously volatile Helen Fiske married U.S. Army captain (later major) Edward Bissell Hunt, brother of a former New York governor. For the next 11 years, she and her husband, an accomplished engineer officer, followed the typically mobile life of a career military family. These years were marked by deep personal tragedy. Jackson's first child Murray died in 1854 of a brain disease when he was less than a year old. In 1863, her husband suffocated while experimenting with an innovative underwater naval vessel or weapon of his own design. Two years later, her other son "Rennie" succumbed to diphtheria. In 1865, the year the Civil War ended, Jackson was alone and grief stricken. After a brief period of mourning, however, the resilient Jackson was eager to embark upon a new life. Having demonstrated no substantial evidence of the literary ability and reform interest that soon would shape her public career, in 1866 she took up residence in Newport, Rhode Island, where she and her husband had previously been stationed and which was "reputed to have more authors than any other city in the country," according to historian Antoinette May in her book

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30. Helen Hunt Jackson
Helen Hunt Jackson (18301885) by Janice Albert. Described as the first novelabout southern California, Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson was written to call
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by Janice Albert Described as "the first novel about southern California," Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson was written to call attention to the plight of the Mission Indians at the hands of the United States government. Instead of sparking indignation, the novel inspired a myth that has indelibly marked the California landscape. Jackson, born 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts, came to California following the publication of her work A Century of Dishonor Uncle Tom's Cabin High school students selling Ramona water, Hemet, CA Arriving in 1881, she carried a commission by Century magazine to write a series of five sketches of California life. Lawrence Clark Powell, in his California Classics , tells us that "she journeyed to all of the Missions from San Diego to Sonoma, and she also researched in the Santa Barbara Mission archives and in the historical collection of H. H. Bancroft long before it was sold to the University of California." Additionally, she visited ranches, including Rancho Camulos in Ventura County and Rancho Guajome, near Oceanside in northwestern San Diego County. Her second visit to California came in 1883 when she was appointed Commissioner of Indian Affairs by President Chester A. Arthur. In this capacity, she was to report formally on the condition of California's Mission Indians. She traveled with fellow commissioner Abbot Kinney, whose knowledge of Spanish helped them to get by two-horse, double-seated carriage to Indian reservations in the Riverside and San Diego back country. Michael Dorris, in his Introduction to the 1988 edition of

31. Poet: Helen Hunt Jackson - All Poems Of Helen Hunt Jackson
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If anyone is actually looking for a true tale of the plight of California Indians, don't bother to look at Jackson's novel. It is inherently racist, written by a woman who doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same likes as Upton Sinclair or Harriet Beecher Stowe. On one of her visits to California, Jackson called the Native Americans she saw "loathsome, abject and hideous." In her novel, she doesn't stray far from this inherent indignation of another race. In fact, she most likely had no idea she was being racist, another reason entirely why this book should be burned. ALternately thorughout the book, Jackson refers to the indians Ramona and ALlesandro encounter as "patient creatures" (16), "poor creatures" (20), "wild creatures" (47), "faithful creatures" (353), "miserable creatures" (324), "vagabond bands" (286) "like beasts" without the Christianizing presence of the Missions (231). are they human? possibly. are they equal to the pastoral spanish who enslaved them that Jackson venerates so much? most definitely not.

33. American Passages - Unit 7. Slavery And Freedom: Authors
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In 1873, poor health and respiratory problems prompted Jackson to move to Colorado Springs, where she believed the mountain air would cure her. She soon met and married William Sharpless Jackson, a Pennsylvania Quaker who had made his fortune as a banker in Colorado. Although her new husband was wealthy, Jackson continued to earn an independent living, publishing stories and travel sketches about life in the West.
In 1879, while she was visiting Boston, the course of her life and writing was forever changed when she attended a lecture given by Standing Bear, chief of the Ponca tribe, that detailed the abuses that his tribe had suffered at the hands of the U.S. government. Jackson was deeply moved by the Poncas' plight, declaring "I cannot think of anything else from morning to night." Although she had never identified herself with any of the prominent reform movements of the nineteenth century (such as abolitionism or women's suffrage), Jackson became committed to generating public support for Native American rights, devoting the remainder of her life to a crusade for justice for the Indians. In order to lend greater authority to her cause, she did exhaustive research in the Astor Library in New York, where she investigated documents related to United States Indian policy starting from the Revolutionary period. She gathered her findings together into a book

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Helen Hunt Jackson (18301885). Helen Hunt Jackson, the author of Ramona, whichappeared in 1884, was an impulsive, attractive, clever woman who called
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"Helen Hunt Jackson, the author of Ramona , which appeared in 1884, was an impulsive, attractive, clever woman who called herself "H.H." Emily Dickinson's early friend, she had long been a popular author when she wrote this book, her only work that later times remembered. Her prose and her verse were alike undistinguished till she happened on a theme that stirred her to the depths and electrified her talent for a moment. "H.H." had gone to Colorado in search of health, and the state of the Indians there excited her pity. As she studied their history, the conquest of the Indians by the whites, the old crusading zeal of the Yankee abolitionists [surged in her heart, and] awoke in [her] mind [images] of a later indifferent New England. She thereupon determined to write the romance that paralleled Uncle Tom's Cabin, the book that roused the popular mind to the sorry state of the [enslaved] conquered race and led to a change of policy in dealing with it. Ramona thus became a part of American history. With all its faults, this novel remained, with its high vitality, a popular classic."

36. Helen Hunt Jackson
Author not available, Jackson, Helen Hunt (18301885). , Young Students LearningLibrary, 01-01-1996. 2.) Robert F. Berkhofer, Jr., Jackson, Helen Hunt.
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"As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough…I wrote faster than I would write a letter…two thousand to three thousand words in a morning, and I cannot help it."
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Name: Helen Hunt Jackson Birth: Location of Birth: Amherst, Massachusetts Date of Death: August 12 1885 Parents: Mother: Deborah (Vinal) Fiske Father:Nathan Welby Education: Female Seminary at Abbott Institute Honors/Awards/Medals: (none)
Helen ventured to California in May of 1872 and used Indians native to the area in her writings. She then journeyed to Colorado Springs, Colorado In search for a cure for a Respiratory illness in the winter of 1873-1874. There she met William Sharpless Jackson, a Pennsylvania Quaker. On October 22, 1875 they were married.
Since childhood, Helen had been interested in the Native Americans. Her book, A Century of Dishonor , published in 1881, was a historical account of the U.S. government's mistreatment of the Native Americans.
In June of 1884 a severely fractured leg left Jackson a cripple. Even though she was handicapped she went to visit her Hispanic friends in California. Helen was always hopeful up till the day she died.

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Novelist, travel writer, and essayist Helen Hunt Jackson (18301885) was one ofthe most successful authors and most passionate intellects of her day.
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38. Colorado College Tutt Library: Helen Hunt Jackson Biography
Helen Hunt Jackson (HH, HHJ) (18301885), maiden name Helen Maria Fiske, occasionalpseudonym Saxe Holm. Deborah Waterman Vinal Fiske (DWVF) = HHJ s mother,
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Helen Maria Fiske was born in Amherst, Massachusetts on October 15, 1830, the daughter of Nathan Fiske and Deborah Waterman Vinal Fiske. Nathan Fiske was professor of Language and Philosophy at Amherst College. Four children were born to Nathan and Deborah, but only the two daughters, Helen and Ann, survived infancy. After Deborah died of consumption in 1844, Helen was cared for by an aunt, Mrs. Martha Hooker. She was educated at Ipswich Female Seminary and at the Abbott Brothers' School in New York City. Nathan Fiske died in 1847 in Jerusalem while on a trip to the Holy Land. In October 1852, Helen married Edward B. Hunt, a captain in the U.S. Corps of Engineers. Their first son, Murray, lived only eleven months before his death in 1854. Edward Hunt was killed in 1863 while experimenting with a submachine gun, his own invention. Two years later, the only remaining son, Warren Horsford Hunt ("Rennie"), died of malignant diphtheria. After the deaths of her husband and sons, Helen Hunt turned to writing, under the tutelage of T.W. Higginson. Her first poem was written three months after Rennie's death.

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An Early Advocate of the Native Peoples Helen Hunt Jackson was a woman ahead of her time. Born Helen Fiske in 1830 in Amherst Massachusetts, Hunt-Jackson was a novelist whose work raised eyebrows of controversy as she questioned the actions of the American government in regards to the Native Americans and also fought and petitioned for their rights.
She authored two books. "Ramona" (1884) novelized a white man's mistreatment of the Native Indians and her groundbreaking work, "Century of Dishonor" (1881), detailed the government's involvement of violating treaties and disregarding human rights of various tribal communities across the United States. Her 19th century work was one of the first published documentaries advocating for the indigenous peoples, and the criticizing of "white men" and their corrupt involvement in tribal deterioration.
Helen Hunt-Jackson created a national uproar, but still championed her cause and challenged those who opposed her - including Theodore Roosevelt.
A long-time friend of Emily Dickinson, the dauntless novelist spent countless hours lecturing those who wanted and needed to hear of the true history – and current plight – of the Native people, and even petitioned for laws and rights on their behalf.

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Helen Hunt Jackson (18301885) was an American author of fiction whose most famousnovel, Ramona, dramatized the plight of California s Indians.
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Name: Helen Hunt Jackson Birth Date: Death Date: Nationality: American Gender: Female Occupations: novelist Helen Hunt Jackson Main Biography Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885) was an American author of fiction whose most famous novel, Ramona, dramatized the plight of California's Indians. Helen Hunt Jackson was born Helen Marie Fiske on October 15, 1830, in Amherst, Mass. Her father taught Latin, Greek, and philosophy at Amherst College. After her mother died of tuberculosis in 1844, an aunt cared for Helen and her younger sister. To recover from his grief and improve his healthhe too suffered from tuberculosisProfessor Fiske sailed for the Near East in 1846. He died in Jerusalem in 1847. In 1852 Helen met and married Lt. Edward Hunt of the Coast Survey Department. The son born in 1853 lived only 11 months. Another son, Warren ("Rennie"), was born in 1855. In 1863 her husband, by this time a major in the Navy Department, died while testing a submarine device he had developed. Yet another blow fell: Rennie died in 1865.

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