Name: Ramona - Helen Hunt Jackson - University Theatre
Uploaded: 2021-06-27T19:09:55+00:00
Duration: 59 min 35 s
Description: A romantic story of the early days of California soon after that territory joined the United States Helen Hunt Jackson was an American poet and writer who became an activist on behalf of improved trea

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A romantic story of the early days of California soon after that territory joined the United States

Helen Hunt Jackson 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. The novel was so popular that it attracted many tourists to Southern California who wanted to see places from the book.

Originally Broadcast in two parts:
8/15/1947 and 8/22/1947
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