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Helen Hunt Jackson (seudónimo: H.H.; nacida como Helen Maria Fiske; 15 de octubre de 1830 – 12 de agosto de 1885) fue una poetisa y escritora estadounidense que abogó como activista por el buen trato a los nativos americanos de parte del gobierno de Estados Unidos.
Helen Hunt Jackson ( pen name, H.H.; born Helen Maria Fiske; October 15, 1830 – August 12, 1885) was an American poet and writer who became an activist on behalf of 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).
Helen Hunt Jackson (born October 15, 1830, Amherst, Massachusetts, U.S.—died August 12, 1885, San Francisco, California) was an American poet, novelist, and advocate for Indigenous rights. She was the daughter of Nathan Fiske, a professor at Amherst College in Massachusetts.
Helen Marie Fiske, conocida como Helen Hunt Jackson (aunque firmaba bien como Helen Hunt o bien como Helen Jackson, según la época de su vida; o incluso con el pseudónimo de Saxe Holm) fue una escritora y activista estadounidense que nació el 15 de octubre de 1830 en Massachussets y falleció de cáncer en San Francisco, el 12 de agosto de ...
Helen Hunt Jackson. 1830–1885. Online Archive of California. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to academic Calvinist parents, poet, author, and Native American rights activist Helen Hunt Jackson (born Helen Maria Fiske) was orphaned as a child and raised by her aunt.
Helen Hunt Jackson (1830–85) was an accomplished poet, author, and activist in the nineteenth century. Many of Jackson’s written works, notably A Century of Dishonor (1881) and Ramona (1884), spurred progress toward recompense for the mistreatment of the Native American peoples by the US government.
A committed activist for Native American rights, Helen Hunt Jackson provides an important context for understanding Indian slavery and exploitation in the California region. Born Helen Maria Fiske to strict, Calvinist parents and orphaned in her teens, Jackson was raised and educated in female boarding schools in Massachusetts and New York.
