“The Indian has been made to feel that he is an alien in the land which…” — Helen Hunt Jackson

“The Indian has been made to feel that he is an alien in the land which was once all his own.”

Evoking dispossession and the loss of belonging · A Century of Dishonor

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About Helen Hunt Jackson

15 October 1830–12 August 1885

Helen Hunt Jackson, born Helen Maria Fiske on 15 October 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts, and dead on 12 August 1885 in San Francisco, California, lived a life shaped by literary ambition, devastating bereavement, restless travel, and an increasingly fierce commitment to justice for Native peoples. She achieved wide…

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