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	Helen Hunt Jackson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jackson was angered by what she heard regarding the unfair treatment at the hands of government agents and became an activist.
		Jackson then sent a copy to every member of Congress with an admonishment printed in red on the cover, "Look upon your hands: they are stained with the blood of your relations." But, to her disappointment, the book had little impact.
		Jackson was particularly drawn to the fate of her Indian friends in the Temecula area of Riverside County and decided to use the story of what happened to them in her novel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Helen_Hunt_Jackson (1258 words)

	Helen Hunt Jackson -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Jackson was angered by what she heard regarding the unfair treatment at the hands of (The organization that is the governing authority of a political unit) government agents and became an activist.
		Jackson then sent a copy to every member of (The legislature of the United States government) Congress with an admonishment printed in red on the cover, "Look upon your hands: they are stained with the blood of your relations." But, to her disappointment, the book had little impact.
		Jackson was particularly drawn to the fate of her Indian friends in the (Click link for more info and facts about Temecula) Temecula area of (Click link for more info and facts about Riverside County) Riverside County and decided to use the story of what happened to them in her novel.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/he/helen_hunt_jackson.htm (1309 words)

	Biography of Helen Hunt Jackson
		Helen Hunt Jackson was born Helen Maria Fiske during the first term of President Andrew Jackson, a former Indian fighter and advocate of removing Indians living in the eastern United States to the West.
		Jackson this was a fortuitous union since it relieved her of financial worries, thus providing the freedom with her husband's support to pursue her fascination with the American West and its Indians from her home in Colorado.
		Jackson would die two years before the act was passed, after nearly a decade of intermittent debate, but her pleas for reform must have had some impact on the act's supporters, especially eastern religious humanitarians.
	jes.tvusd.k12.ca.us /biography_jackson.htm (1911 words)

	Helen Hunt Jackson - Champion of the Native American (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Helen grew up in a literary atmosphere and she was herself a poet and writer of children's stories, novels, and essays.
		Helen was furious by what she heard, but being well balanced by nature, she made a painstaking study of the situation.
		Helen died in San Francisco on August 12, 1885, while she was examining the condition of the California Indians as a special government commissioner.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/women_of_faith/84919 (439 words)

	HELEN MARIA JACKSON - LoveToKnow Article on HELEN MARIA JACKSON
		(1 8311885), American poet and novelist, who wrote under the intials of H. (Helen Hunt), was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, on the 18th of October 1831, the daughter of Nathan Welby Fiske (1798-1847), who was a professor in Amherst College.
		In 1870 she published a little volume of meditative Verses, which was praised by Emerson in the preface to his Parnassus (1874).
		She became a prolific writer of prose and verse, including juvenile tales, books of travel, household hints and novels, of which the best is Raniona (1884), a defence of the Indian character.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /J/JA/JACKSON_HELEN_MARIA.htm (226 words)

	Helen Hunt Jackson by Judith L. Trest for the DQ Times
		Helen wanted more than anything else to publish her work, but she was also a very astute businesswoman as well as a writer.
		Helen's lifetime journey, which was to take her further than even she could anticipate, began in the company of Sarah Woolsey as they set off on their trek to California on May 8, 1872.
		Helen was bitterly attacked for her stand on behalf of the Indians by William N. Byers, the former editor of the Rocky Mountain News.
	www.judy.trest.com /HHJ.shtml (8965 words)

	PAL: Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-85)
		Helen Fiske, born in Amherst, Mass., took her two last names from her husbands.
		Helen was a long-time friend of Emily Dickinson and, besides becoming much more famous than her friend as a poet, produced many novels, including Ramona (1884).
		Helen Hunt Jackson and Abbot Kinney on the Mission Indians in 1883 (Boston: Stanley and Usher, 1887; Pam E 78 15 J3 Victoria College Archives).
	www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap5/jackson.html (538 words)

	Helen Hunt Jackson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		She was born during the first term of Andrew Jackson’s Presidency.Helen Hunt Jackson (Helen Maria Fiske) was the daughter of Deborah (Vinal) Fiske and Nathan Welby.
		Helen’s Father was a Congregational minister, an author, and professor of Latin, Greek, and philosophy at Amherst College.
		Helen ventured to California in May of 1872 and used Indians native to the area in her writings.
	www.east-buc.k12.ia.us /00_01/WH/slv/slv.htm (350 words)

	Colorado Women's Hall of Fame - Helen Hunt Jacksonl
		Helen was born into a pious, scholarly household on October 15, 1831, in Amherst, Massachusetts.
		Helen's mother died of tuberculosis when Helen was 12 and her inflexible father, a minister and professor at Amherst College, died three years later.
		Helen was described as "the most brilliant, impetuous and thoroughly individual woman in her time".
	www.cogreatwomen.org /jackson.htm (475 words)

	Cordula's Web. Helen Hunt Jackson
		Helen Hunt Jackson's section in the DMOZ Open Directory.
		Helen Hunt Jackson (October 18, 1831 - August 12, 1885) was an American writer.
		Using the pseudonym "H.H.H.", Helen became a noted poet and writer of essays, children's stories, and novels, in her own right.
	www.cordula.ws /a-jacksonhh.html (1308 words)

	Newsletter of the Friends of Amherst College Library, Volume 29, Helen Hunt Jackson's Lasting Amherst Ties
		Among the more interesting things to be discovered in studying Jackson's private letters and many publications are those that concern the lasting impact that her Amherst upbringing had on her entire life and career.
		Although the atmosphere in the Fiske home was nurturing, Helen began when very young to experience a series of losses and sorrows that would eventually give her early life an aspect of unremitting misfortune.
		Jackson was the only person of letters to offer unstinting praise for Dickinson's poetry as she wrote it, and her enthusiasm meant a great deal to Dickinson.
	www.amherst.edu /library/friends/newsletter/news29/jackson.html (1267 words)

	Helen Hunt Jackson
		At the urgings of her concerned friends, Helen began to write about her grief; and at the encouragement of her doctor, she decided to go west.
		Helen Hunt Jackson's compassion for others, heightened by her own life's sadness, eventually led her to become a very vocal critic of the unjust treatment of American Indians.
		Helen Hunt Jackson will always be remembered locally for her fresh and detailed descriptions of the landscape, sky, and flowers of the mountainous country she came to love.
	www.zmoon.com /pptravel/essays/jackson.html (323 words)

	Helen Hunt Jackson biography
		A brief biography of Helen Hunt Jackson, a nineteenth century woman known as a champion of the American Indian.
		Helen Hunt Jackson was born on October 18, 1830 as Helen Maria Fiske.
		She published her work under the pen name of H.H.H. Her poetry was the outflow of deep sympathetic thought on the problem of life’s trials and temptations.
	nv.essortment.com /helenhuntjacks_rvki.htm (361 words)

	Helen Hunt Jackson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Jackson grew up in a literary environment, and using a pseudonym (H.H.H), was herself a noted poet and writer of children’s stories, novels and essays before turning her considerable intellect and energy to investigating and publicizing the mistreatment of Native Americans, especially the Mission Indians of Southern California.
		Undaunted by Congress’ rejection, Jackson decided to write a novel that would depict the Indian experience "in a way to move people’s hearts." She was particularly drawn to the fate of her Indian friends in the Temecula area of Riverside County.
		Helen Hunt Jackson: Official Agent to the California Mission Indians by Valerie Sherer Mathes appears in Women in the Life of Southern California, (1996), an anthology compiled from Southern California Quarterly, a publication of the Historical Society of Southern California edited by Doyce B. Nunis, Jr.
	www.socalhistory.org /Biographies/hhjackson.htm (1171 words)

	Jackson, Helen Hunt -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Widely recognized for her poetry, which drew the praise of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and essays, Helen Hunt Jackson was best known for her novel ‘Ramona', which dramatized the plight of Native Americans, in the hope of provoking social action.
		A novel by Helen Hunt Jackson, Ramona was written to publicize the ill-treatment faced by Native Americans in the late 19th century.
		Jackson is located on the Pearl River, with New Orleans, La., 171 miles (275 kilometers) to the south and Vicksburg 41 miles (66 kilometers) to the west.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9043162?tocId=9043162 (767 words)

	Helen Hunt Jackson: CHAPTER ONE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Yet Jackson's ability to persevere in the face of adversity actually represented an inheritance not only of her mother's "gift of cheer," important as that was, but also of her father's "habits" of diligence—a legacy that new intellectual influences had perhaps obscured by the time she spoke with Woolsey.
		In fact, Jackson inherited a number of personal characteristics for which she never explicitly gave her parents credit, but which would prove fundamental to her writing career—from the set of attitudes about health that led her continually to travel to her literary inclination itself and a belief that writing should be spiritually uplifting.
		. Jackson to Deborah Fiske, [1841] and [1842], HHJ1.
	ucpress.org /books/pages/9170/9170.ch02.html (10661 words)

	Helen Hunt Jackson
		Described as "the first novel about southern California," Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson was written to call attention to the plight of the Mission Indians at the hands of the United States government.
		Jackson, born 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts, came to California following the publication of her work A Century of Dishonor, an exposé of the plight of America's indigenous people.
		At this point Jackson begins her revelation of the condition of Indian life in California.
	www.cateweb.org /CA_Authors/Jackson.html (982 words)

	Remembering Helen Hunt Jackson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Helen Hunt Jackson, who lived from 1830 to 1885, had a long literary career.
		Jackson grew up in Amherst, Mass., and moved to Colorado Springs in 1873 to regain her health.
		It appears Emerson, Jackson, and Marti formed a friendship and shared similar values, a literary relationship that is just one example of the diverse influence of Helen Hunt Jackson and her writings.
	www.coloradocollege.edu /publications/access/Sept2000/archives.htm (329 words)

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		Harmon and Helen would have three children, but heartache came when their second son,Harmon Darrell, was only to live for 23 days, and was buried one week before Christmas 1940.
		Harmon and Helen celebrated their 45th wedding anniversary two months before Harmon Isaac died in his sleep in 1982.
		Helen would join him in 1993, after losing her second son only 2 years before her death.
	hometown.aol.com /mgrayson98/genealgy (395 words)

	JACKSON, Helen W.
		JACKSON, Helen W. - Age 89, passed peacefully at hone in Daly City August 31, 2004, where she was a resident for 45 years.
		Helen was preceded in death by her husband, Wayne Jackson in 1991, and her daughter Evelyn Jackson in 1990.
		Helen is survived by her daughter Shirley Stewart; granddaughters Lisa Keating, Colleen Stewart and Jeraldeen Stewart.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/09/05/MNJACKSONH22.DTL (102 words)

	The True Beginning of Native American Novels by James Fenimore Cooper and Helen Hunt Jackson
		According to Michael Dorris, Helen Hunt Jackson was so fiercely sincere in her beliefs as to send copies of the book to each member of Congress at her own expense.
		As it was a novel, Helen did not cite a large number of instances of their suffering of extreme poverty, the abandoned life deep in the mountains and many questions of the ethics of people in the old days.
		Helen Jackson decided to fulfill her mission as an investigator about the situation of Native American peoples.
	external.oneonta.edu /cooper/articles/suny/2001suny-suzuki.html (2863 words)

	Helen Hunt Jackson
		Kate Phillips brings together in this definitive life of Helen Hunt Jackson a variety of challenging issues-feminism, literary history, psychology, social history, biography, intellectual history, anthropology-and the result is a brilliant contribution to the entire field of American studies.
		Novelist, travel writer, and essayist Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885) was one of the most successful authors and most passionate intellects of her day.
		This long-overdue biography of Jackson's remarkable life and times reintroduces a distinguished figure in American letters and restores Helen Hunt Jackson to her rightful place in history.
	www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/9170.html (717 words)

	Helen Jackson's Biography
		Helen was elected to Parliament in 1992 and in her first term she founded and chaired the All Party Parliamentary Water Group.
		Helen was voted on to the National Executive of the Labour Party in 1999 and has been re-elected to remain on every year to present.
		In 2001, she was one of the prime movers in the setting-up of the All-Party Steel Group which continues working to represent the problems faced by the steel industry and its communities.
	www.helenjackson.labour.co.uk /ViewPage.cfm?Page=5434 (350 words)

	AllRefer.com - Helen (Fiske) Hunt Jackson (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Helen (Fiske) Hunt Jackson 1830–85, American writer whose pseudonym was H. H., b.
		In 1863, encouraged by T. Higginson, Jackson began writing for periodicals.
		She is the author of poetry, novels, children's stories, and travel sketches.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/J/JacksoHH.html (223 words)

	Ancestry.com - Search Helen H. Jackson, Glimpses of California and the Missions
		Helen H. Jackson of Amherst, Massachusetts, turned to writing after the death of her first husband in 1863.
		Her marriage to William Jackson, a wealthy Denver Quaker, brought her to the West in 1875, and she soon became a Native American rights activist.
		She was sent west as part of a federal commission to investigate conditions among the Mission Indians in 1882, and her experiences as part of that commission inspired her famous 1884 novel Ramona.
	www.ancestry.netscape.com /search/db.aspx?dbid=4967 (222 words)

	WowEssays.com - Helen Hunt Jackson And
		Helen Hunt Jackson and The Campaign for Ponca Restitution, 1880-1881 by Rosina Villarreal Writer, poet; born in Amherst, Mass.
		She married William Jackson (1875) and they settled in Colorado Springs, Colo. She is best known for her novel Ramona (1884), an indictment of the U.S. government's treatment of Native Americans.
		Helen Hunt Jackson started her fight with merely editorials and soon realized it was not enough.
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	helen hunt jackson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Jackson’s novel, about a part-Indian orphan raised in Spanish society and her
		Jackson died a year after her novel was published, never
		Helen Hunt Jackson led a hard life on the frontier plains; she lost her husband
	geogdata.csun.edu /geogcourses/helen_hunt_jackson03.html (277 words)

	helen hunt jackson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885), activist for Native American rights and author
		Jackson grew up in a literary environment, and using a pseudonym (H.H.H), was
		Jackson was incensed by what she heard and began to
	geogdata.csun.edu /geogcourses/helen_hunt_jackson.html (388 words)

	Helen Maria Fiske Jackson
		JACKSON, Helen Maria Fiske, author, born in Amherst, Massachusetts, 18 October, 1831; died in Sam Francisco, California, 12 August, 1885.
		She had become known as a contributor to periodical literature, under the signature of "H. H.," when in October, 1875, she married William S. Jackson, and thereafter spent much of her time in Colorado Springs, where her husband was a banker.
		In 1883 she was appointed special commissioner to examine into the condition of the Mission Indians of California, and while thus engaged she studied the history of the early Spanish missions.
	famousamericans.net /helenmariafiskejackson (360 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| South Yorkshire \| MP to leave Commons at election
		Helen Jackson, the Labour MP for Sheffield Hillsborough, is to step down at the next general election.
		Mrs Jackson, 65, has represented the constituency since 1992 and had a majority of 14,569 over the Liberal Democrats in the 2001 poll.
		In the Commons, Mrs Jackson has backed the reform of MPs' working hours and earlier this week expressed dismay that some evening sittings are to be reintroduced.
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/newsFeedXML/moreover/-/1/hi/england/south_yorkshire/4217505.stm (138 words)

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