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Helen Hunt Jackson
Helen Maria Hunt Jackson, born Helen 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 U.S. 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.〔H.H.Jackson (1884) ''Ramona'' (NY: Harper)〕〔DeLyser, Dydia (2005), ''Ramona Memories: Tourism and the Shaping of Southern California,'' (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press)〕 The novel was so popular that it attracted many tourists to Southern California who wanted to see places from the book.
==Early years==
She was born Helen Maria Fiske in Amherst, Massachusetts, the daughter of Nathan Welby Fiske and Deborah Waterman Vinal Fisk. Helen's father was a minister, author, and professor of Latin, Greek, and philosophy at Amherst College. She had two brothers, both of whom died soon after birth, and a sister Anne. They were raised as Unitarian.〔("Add to Sunday's 'Hell List'" ), ''New York Times'', 7 May 1917, accessed 14 February 2011〕 Anne became the wife of E. C. Banfield, a federal government official who served as Solicitor of the United States Treasury.〔Edith Colby Banfield, (''The Place of My Desire: And Other Poems'' ), 1904, page vii〕
The girls lost their mother in 1844, when Helen was fifteen. Three years later their father died. He had provided financially for Helen's education and arranged for an uncle to care for her. Fiske attended Ipswich Female Seminary and the Abbott Institute, a boarding school in New York City run by Reverend J.S.C. Abbott. She was a classmate of Emily Dickinson, also from Amherst; Emily became a renowned poet. The two corresponded for the rest of their lives, but few of their letters have survived.
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