A Century of Dishonor: Exposing the Plight of Native Americans - Historical Nonfiction Book on Indigenous Struggles & Injustice - Perfect for History Students & Social Justice Advocates

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Sharply critical of the United States government's cruelty toward Native Americans, this monumental study chronicles the maltreatment of Indians as far back as the American Revolution.  Focusing on the Delaware and the Cheyenne, the text also documents and deplores the sufferings of the Sioux, Nez Perce, Ponca, Winnebago, and Cherokee - revealing, in the process, a succession of broken treaties, the government's forced removal of tribes from choice lands, and other examples of inhuman treatment of the nation's 300,000 Indians.

Stirring and eloquently stated, A Century of Dishonor was written in the hope of righting the wrongs inflicted upon this nation's first inhabitants.  Within a year of its 1881 publication, the book played an instrumental role in the creation of the powerful Indian Rights Association.  Decades later, author and critic Allen Nevins described it as "one of the soundest and most exhaustive works" ever written about Native American rights.  An ever-relevant reference, this volume comprises much of interest to students, historians, and others interested in Native American culture.

Helen Hunt Jackson

(1881), 2003, 5.5" x 8.5", Paper, 341 pp.

ISBN:  9780486426983

111-J2698