“I shall be found with ‘Indians’ engraved on my brain when I am dead. A…” — Helen Hunt Jackson

“I shall be found with ‘Indians’ engraved on my brain when I am dead. A fire has been kindled within me, which will never go out.”

Expressing the lifelong passion for Native American rights that overtook her later years · Letter to Charles Dudley Warner, 21 December 1879

Helen Hunt Jackson

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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