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Ramona (Paperback)
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One of the greatest ethical novels of the nineteenth century, this
is a tale of true love tested. Set in Old California, this powerful
narrative richly depicts the life of the fading Spanish order, the
oppression of tribal American communities and inevitably, the
brutal intrusion of white settlers. Ramona, an illegitimate orphan,
grows up as the ward of the overbearing Senora Moreno. But her
desire for Alessandro, a Native American, makes her an outcast and
fugitive...
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Ramona (Paperback)
Helen Hunt Jackson; Contributions by Mint Editions
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Ramona (1884) is a novel by Helen Hunt Jackson. Inspired by her
activism for the rights of Native Americans, Ramona is a story of
racial discrimination, survival, and history set in California in
the aftermath of the Mexican American War. Immensely popular upon
publication, Ramona earned favorable comparisons to Harriet Beecher
Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and remains an influential sentimental
novel to this day. Orphaned after the death of her foster mother,
Ramona, a Scottish-Native American girl, is taken in by her
reluctant foster aunt Senora Gonzaga Moreno. Early on, she
experiences discrimination due to her mixed heritage and troubled
upbringing, but Gonzaga Moreno begrudgingly provides for her as
though she were her own daughter, in accordance with her sister's
wishes. When a group of Native American migrant workers arrives
from Temecula to perform the annual sheep shearing, Ramona falls in
love with Alessandro, a pious Catholic. Despite his honesty and
capacity for hard work, Alessandro is viewed with contempt by the
Senora. Faced with no alternative, the lovers elope and make their
way toward the San Bernardino Mountains, facing racism and violence
from American settlers along the way. Bound by love, rejected by
the dominant cultures of the newly Americanized California,
Alessandro and Ramona must do what they can to survive. With a
beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript,
this edition of Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona is a classic of
American literature reimagined for modern readers.
A Century of Dishonor (1884) is a work of nonfiction by Helen Hunt
Jackson. Inspired by a speech given by Ponca chief Standing Bear in
Boston, A Century of Dishonor attempts to reckon with the genocide
and displacement of Native Americans and the passage of Indian
Appropriations Act of 1871. At her own expense, Hunt Jackson sent
copies of the book to every member of Congress, hoping to convince
them to amend official government policies and to end the
mistreatment of indigenous peoples across the country. Largely
dismissed upon publication, the book managed to galvanize a
minority of white Americans in solidarity with Native people
nationwide and led to some minor government reforms. After meeting
Standing Bear in 1879, Hunt Jackson spent months at Manhattan's
Astor Library to compile research on the treatment of Native
Americans. Using government reports and personal testimonies, she
weaves a story of seven tribes whose treaties with the United
States were broken, who were removed from their ancestral lands,
and whose people were massacred by settlers and military forces.
She provides background on the histories and cultures of the
Delaware, Cheyenne, Nez Perce, Sioux, Ponca, Winnebago, and
Cherokee peoples, arguing that their way of life had a vital impact
on the formation of the United States. Crucially, she cites
statistics directly from the War Department and the Department of
Interior which show that the government openly pursued a campaign
of violence against Native Americans. She argues: "It makes little
difference, however, where one opens the record of the history of
the Indians; every page and every year has its dark stain."
Providing the incontrovertible facts of the nation's actions, its
dishonorable conduct, she demands not just answers, but change.
That her activism was largely ignored remains tragic. With a
beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript,
this edition of Helen Hunt Jackson's A Century of Dishonor is a
classic of American literature reimagined for modern readers.
A Century of Dishonor (1884) is a work of nonfiction by Helen Hunt
Jackson. Inspired by a speech given by Ponca chief Standing Bear in
Boston, A Century of Dishonor attempts to reckon with the genocide
and displacement of Native Americans and the passage of Indian
Appropriations Act of 1871. At her own expense, Hunt Jackson sent
copies of the book to every member of Congress, hoping to convince
them to amend official government policies and to end the
mistreatment of indigenous peoples across the country. Largely
dismissed upon publication, the book managed to galvanize a
minority of white Americans in solidarity with Native people
nationwide and led to some minor government reforms. After meeting
Standing Bear in 1879, Hunt Jackson spent months at Manhattan's
Astor Library to compile research on the treatment of Native
Americans. Using government reports and personal testimonies, she
weaves a story of seven tribes whose treaties with the United
States were broken, who were removed from their ancestral lands,
and whose people were massacred by settlers and military forces.
She provides background on the histories and cultures of the
Delaware, Cheyenne, Nez Perce, Sioux, Ponca, Winnebago, and
Cherokee peoples, arguing that their way of life had a vital impact
on the formation of the United States. Crucially, she cites
statistics directly from the War Department and the Department of
Interior which show that the government openly pursued a campaign
of violence against Native Americans. She argues: "It makes little
difference, however, where one opens the record of the history of
the Indians; every page and every year has its dark stain."
Providing the incontrovertible facts of the nation's actions, its
dishonorable conduct, she demands not just answers, but change.
That her activism was largely ignored remains tragic. With a
beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript,
this edition of Helen Hunt Jackson's A Century of Dishonor is a
classic of American literature reimagined for modern readers.
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Ramona (Hardcover)
Helen Hunt Jackson; Contributions by Mint Editions
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Ramona (1884) is a novel by Helen Hunt Jackson. Inspired by her
activism for the rights of Native Americans, Ramona is a story of
racial discrimination, survival, and history set in California in
the aftermath of the Mexican American War. Immensely popular upon
publication, Ramona earned favorable comparisons to Harriet Beecher
Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and remains an influential sentimental
novel to this day. Orphaned after the death of her foster mother,
Ramona, a Scottish-Native American girl, is taken in by her
reluctant foster aunt Senora Gonzaga Moreno. Early on, she
experiences discrimination due to her mixed heritage and troubled
upbringing, but Gonzaga Moreno begrudgingly provides for her as
though she were her own daughter, in accordance with her sister's
wishes. When a group of Native American migrant workers arrives
from Temecula to perform the annual sheep shearing, Ramona falls in
love with Alessandro, a pious Catholic. Despite his honesty and
capacity for hard work, Alessandro is viewed with contempt by the
Senora. Faced with no alternative, the lovers elope and make their
way toward the San Bernardino Mountains, facing racism and violence
from American settlers along the way. Bound by love, rejected by
the dominant cultures of the newly Americanized California,
Alessandro and Ramona must do what they can to survive. With a
beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript,
this edition of Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona is a classic of
American literature reimagined for modern readers.
First published in 1881 and reprinted in numerous editions
since, Helen Hunt Jackson's A Century of Dishonor is a classic
account of the U.S. government's flawed Indian policy and the
unfair and cruel treatment afforded North American Indians by
expansionist Americans. Jackson wrote the book as a polemic to
"appeal to the hearts and conscience of the American people," who
she hoped would demand legislative reform from Congress and redeem
the country's name from the stain of a "century of dishonor." Her
efforts, which constitute a landmark in Indian reform, helped begin
the long process of public awareness for Indian rights that
continues to the present day.
Beginning with a legal brief on the original Indian right of
occupancy, A Century of Dishonor continues with Jackson's analysis
of how irresponsibility, dishonesty, and perfidy on the part of
Americans and the U.S. government devastated the Delaware,
Cheyenne, Nez Perce, Sioux, Ponca, Winnebago, and Cherokee Indians.
Jackson describes the government's treatment of the Indians as "a
shameful record of broken treaties and unfulfilled promises"
exacerbated by "a sickening record of murder, outrage, robbery, and
wrongs" committed by frontier settlers, with only an occasional
Indian retaliation. Such notable events as the flight of Chief
Joseph of the Nez Perces and the Cherokee Trail of Tears illustrate
Jackson's arguments.
Valerie Sherer Mathes's foreword traces Jackson's life and
writings and places her in the context of reform advocacy in the
midst of nineteenth century expansionism. This unabridged paperback
edition contains an index, and the complete appendix, which
includes Jackson's correspondence concerning the Sand Creek
Massacre and her report as Special Comminnioner to investigate the
needs of California's Mission Indians.
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Ramona (Hardcover)
Helen Hunt Jackson
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Ramona (Paperback)
Helen Hunt Jackson
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Verses (Hardcover)
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