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About Helen Hunt Jackson

Helen Hunt Jackson was a 19th-century American writer. Helen Hunt Jackson was an American poet and writer who became an activist for improved treatment of Native Americans by the United States government. She described the adverse effects of government actions in her history A Century of Dishonor (1881). Read more on Wikipedia →

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