A Century of DishonorIn Helen Jackson’s A Century of Dishonor we are given proof of our nation’s mishandling of what was called “the Indian problem”. Using official documents as her resource materials, Jackson asserts that the government and people of the United States were the cause of the “problems”, not the native peoples. Broken treaties, inhuman treatment, restriction to reservations unfit for habitation or traditional lifestyle…all these actions were taken against Indian tribes by a government that often treated them with less consideration than a foreign nation. Originally written in 1889. |
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CHAPTER III | 66 |
CHAPTER IV | 103 |
CHAPTER V | 136 |
PAGE | 180 |
THE SAND CREEK MASSACRE | 343 |
THE PONCA CASE | 359 |
TESTIMONIES TO INDIAN CHARACTER | 374 |
OUTRAGES COMMITTED ON INDIANS BY WHITES | 381 |
EXTRACTS FROM THE REPORT OF THE COMMISSION SENT TO TREAT WITH THE SIOUX CHIEF SITTING BULL IN CANADA | 386 |
ACCOUNT OF SOME OF THE OLD GRIEVANCES OF THE SIOUX | 389 |
LETTER FROM SARAH WINNEMUCCA AN EDUCATED PA HUTE WOMAN | 395 |
LAWS OF THE DELAWARE NATION OF INDIANS | 396 |
CHAPTER VI | 186 |
CHAPTER VII | 218 |
CHAPTER VIII | 257 |
MASSACRES OF INDIANS BY WHITES | 298 |
The Gnadenhütten Massacre | 317 |
Massacres of Apaches | 324 |
CHAPTER X | 336 |
ACCOUNT OF THE CHEROKEE WHO INVENTED THE CHEROKEE AL PHABET | 404 |
PRICES PAID BY WHITE MEN FOR SCALPS | 405 |
EXTRACT FROM TREATY WITH CHEYENNES IN 1865 | 406 |
WOODCUTTING BY INDIANS IN DAKOTA | 407 |
AN ACCOUNT OF THE NUMBERS LOCATION AND SOCIAL AND IN DUSTRIAL CONDITION OF EACH IMPORTANT TRIBE AND BAND O... | 411 |
REPORT ON THE CONDITION AND NEEDS OF THE MISSION INDIANS OF CALIFORNIA | 458 |
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