A Century Of Dishonor Summary

A Century of Dishonor is a outcry for justice by Helen hunt written in 1881.”One of the most prolific women writers of her time, Helen Hunt Jackson hoped to be remembered mainly for A Century of Dishonor: A Sketch of the United States Government 's Dealings with Some of the Indian Tribes (1881)”(Briscoe). Helen raises the question at the beginning of her book by posing the question to the reader, has the American government really been honorable in their dealings with native americans. Helen was an activist who fought for the rights of native americans, and had a close up view of the injustice the native Americans suffered through., Helen believed the overarching issue was not just the withholding of rights to the people but the eventual obliteration of their culture by forcing them to conform to the standards set by the government. The United States government and the American people dismissed the cultural integrity of the native americans and Helen believed the mindset of the country needed to be changed in order to open there eyes to wrong that they were doing. Helen notes many times in the introduction that her beliefs on the persecution of …show more content…
The book setups a Bias siding with the indians, however wrongdoings of the us government far outways the good , and is proven by the enormous amount of evidence provided by Helen. I wholeheartedly side with Helen and believe the culture and native american people should have been given the respect that they deserved and should have been compensated for the land and lives taken from them. Today we see the dramatic effects of the hardships placed on the native americans with their small numbers and many lost traditions. A century of Dishonor was effective in opening the eyes of the common man but was not enough to turn the tide of