Helen Hunt Jackson

Helen Hunt Jackson
Born	Helen Maria Fiske October 15, 1830 Amherst, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died	August 12, 1885(1885-08-12) (aged 54) San Francisco, California, U.S.
Resting place	Evergreen Cemetery, Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S.
Pen name	H.H.
Occupation	Poet, writer
Language	English
Alma mater	Ipswich Female Seminary Abbott Institute
Notable works	A Century of Dishonor (1881); Ramona (1884)
Spouse	Edward Bissell Hunt ​ (m. 1852)​ William Sharpless Jackson ​ ​ (m. 1875)​

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). Her novel Ramona (1884) dramatized the federal government's mistreatment of Native Americans in Southern California after the Mexican–American War and attracted considerable attention to her cause. Commercially popular, it was estimated to have been reprinted 300 times and most readers liked its romantic and picturesque qualities rather than its political content.^[1][2] The novel was so popular that it attracted many tourists to Southern California who wanted to see places from the book.