Century of Dishonor: A Sketch of the United States Governments Dealing With Some of the Indian Tribes.. by JACKSON, Helen Hunt - 1888

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1888. H.M.R.C. Edition. Octavo. x, 514, [4, ads] pp. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. Aside from a bit of old soiling to the upper spine, a very clean and handsome copy.Jackson, author, of the classic Ramona, was an advocate for Native American rights and this was her bid to help. "Jackson wrote A Century of Dishonor in an attempt to change government ideas/policy toward Native Americans at a time when effects of the 1871 Indian Appropriations Act (making the entire Native American population wards of the nation) had begun to draw the attention of the public. Jackson attended a meeting in Boston in 1879 at which Standing Bear, a Ponca, told how the federal government forcibly removed his tribe from its ancestral homeland in the wake of the creation of the Great Sioux Reservation. After meeting Standing Bear, she conducted research at the Astor Library in New York and was shocked by the story of government mistreatment that she found" (Wiki)