In Helen Jackson’s A Century of Dishonor we are given proof of our nation’s mishandling of what was called “the Indian problem”. Using official documents as her resource materials, Jackson asserts that the government and people of the United States were the cause of the “problems”, not the native peoples. Broken treaties, inhuman treatment, restriction to reservations unfit for habitation or traditional lifestyle…all these actions were taken against Indian tribes by a government that often treated them with less consideration than a foreign nation. Originally written in 1889.
In Helen Jackson’s A Century of Dishonor we are given proof of our nation’s mishandling of what was called “the Indian problem”. Using official documents as her resource materials, Jackson asserts that the government and people of the United States were the cause of the “problems”, not the nativ...