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US: Digital Scanning Inc, 2001. Paperback. Good. Originally published over 100 years ago, A Century of Dishonor is Helen Jac kson's eye- opening sketch of the U.S. government's often shameful mishandl ing of what was called the "Indian problem". Using official documents as au thentic research materials, Jackson asserts that the government and citizen s of the United States were the cause of the "problems", and not the Native peoples. Broken treaties, inhuman treatment, restricted to reservations un fit for habitation or traditional lifestyle...all of these actions were tak en against Indian tribes by a government that treated them with less consid eration and compassion than that of a foreign country.
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A Century of Dishonor: A Sketch of the United States Government's Dealings with Some of the Indian Tribes Hardcover - 2001
by Helen Hunt Jackson
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A Century of Dishonor exposes how various people, from the military personnel to the government official, viewed Native Americans. Jackson outlines treaties between the federal government and various Native American tribes, treaties that were supposed to protect the rights of the Native American people and “ensure” them title to their lands, but were broken by the United States Government. She also tells of massacres, citing letters written by members of the United States military, detailing the horrendous acts committed against Native American women and children. When it was published in 1885, A Century of Dishonor created such a stir that the U.S. Department of the Interior appointed Jackson and Abbot Kinney to investigate the conditions of Native Americans in missions in California.
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THE present number of Indians in the United States does not exceed three hundred thousand, but is possibly as large now as when the Europeans began the settlement of the North American continent.
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- Title A Century of Dishonor: A Sketch of the United States Government's Dealings with Some of the Indian Tribes
- Author Helen Hunt Jackson
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 532
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Digital Scanning
- Date August 1, 2001
- ISBN 9781582182896 / 1582182892
- Weight 2.12 lbs (0.96 kg)
- Dimensions 9.38 x 6.22 x 1.5 in (23.83 x 15.80 x 3.81 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 973.049
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