Ramona

Description

One of the greatest ethical novels of the nineteenth century, Helen Hunt Jackson’s Ramona is a tale of true love tested.

Set in Old California, this powerful narrative richly depicts the life of the fading Spanish order, the oppression of tribal American communities and inevitably, the brutal intrusion of white settlers. Ramona, an illegitimate orphan, grows up as the ward of the overbearing Senora Moreno. But her desire for Alessandro, a Native American, makes her an outcast and fugitive…
Binding Type: Mass Market Paperbound
Contributors: Helen Hunt Jackson,Michael Dorris (Introduction by),Valerie Sherer Mathes (Afterword by)
Published: 07/01/2002
Publisher: Signet Book
ISBN: 9780451528421
Pages: 432
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 1.11″ H x 6.86″ L x 4.24″ W

About the Author
Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885) was a poet, novelist and essayist who became an advocate for Native American rights, fighting for improved treatment of Natives by the US government. She detailed the adverse effects of previous actions taken against Indian tribes 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.