Century of Dishonor (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

Century of Dishonor (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) Synopsis

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Through A Century of Dishonor, Helen Hunt Jackson sought to galvanize the American nation against the United States federal governments Native American treaty abuses. She combed the archives of the Astor Library in New York and studied the official reports of the War Department and the Department of the Interior, in effort to give Native Americans back their humanity in the eyes of whites.