A Century of Dishonor

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In 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. 
 

Contents

INTRODUCTION BY PRESIDENT JULIUS H SEELYE
1
CHAPTER I
7
INTRODUCTORY 9
15
CHAPTER II
32
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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