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Good Reading
Being a member of The Juaneno Band of Mission Indians in San Juan Capistrano, Ca. This book has given me a great bit of understanding into how our people were treated and how thislady dedicated the last years of her life to helping the mission indians in California.I'm a new fan of Mrs.Jackson's writings. ... Read more

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book: Juan Canito and Senor Felipe were not the only members of the Senora's family who were impatient for the sheep- shearing. There was also Ramona. Ramona was, to the world at large, a far more important person than the Senora herself. The Senora was of the past; Ramona was of the present. For one eye that could see the significant, at times solemn, beauty of the Senora's pale and shadowed countenance, there were a hundred that flashed with eager pleasure at the barest glimpse of Ramona's face; the shepherds, the herdsmen, the maids, the babies, the dogs, the poultry, all loved the sight of Ramona; all loved her, except the Senora. The Senora loved her not; never had loved her, never could love her; and yet she had stood in the place of mother to the girl ever since her childhood, and never once during the whole sixteen years of her life had shown her any unkindness in act. She had promised to be a mother to her; and with all the inalienable stanchness of her nature she fulfilled theletter of her promise. More than the bond lay in the bond; but that was not the Senora's fault.The story of Ramona the Senora never told. To most of the Senora's acquaintances now, Ramona was a mystery. They did not know—and no one ever asked a prying question of the Senora Moreno—who Ramona's parents were, whether they were living or dead, or why Ramona, her name not being Moreno, lived always in the Senora's house as a daughter, tended and attended equally with the adored Felipe. A few gray-haired men and women here and there in the country could have told the strange story of Ramona; but its beginning was more than a half-century back, and much had happened since then. They seldom thought of the child. They knew she was in the Senora Moreno's keeping, and that was enough. The affairs of the ge... ... Read more

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Thank you very much for offering exactly what I needed.
Several years ago, I read an article in the San Francisco Chronicle about this book. I was surprised, because I didn't even know that a book was written about how the indigenous peoples of California felt about the change from being governed by Mexico to being ruled by the United State of America. It was heartbreaking to read, but it's a must-read for everybody who lives in this country. May we never forget, so that it won't happen again.

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I got the book exactly came how the seller said it was.It was fast shipping and in great condition. Thank you so much.

rating the physical book...not the story
This book is an excellent story.Lots of California history..or better..Alta California as it was known in the era.

BEWARE OF THE PHYSICAL BOOK !!!!! It is about 10"x11"...printing of the story is VERY!!!! pale.

I will keep this....but have ordered an older, normal paperback version...similar to the one I left accidentally at the San Diego airport.
Terrible size and print itself. Find another book of Ramona, by Helen Hunt Jackson....andbe ready to want to go to Old Town San Diego.

Michaelene Gon.

A Story You Will Never Forget
I loved Ramona. It was the most beautiful story I have ever read. A wonderful look at California right after it came under the control of Americans. A story that has history, romance, prejudice, love, loss, and everything in between . Please read this book. I only regret that I never read it until I was in my thirties. This is Helen Hunt Jacksons masterpiece and the attention that it gave to the treatment of Indians is remarkable.

Great historical romance
This book might be the only romance novel that I've read in my life, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.It painted a detailed portrait/landscape of what California was like in the late 1800's. ... Read more

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"No other book had such an impact on the tender consciences of the American people, and none accomplished so much on behalf of a sizable minority."--historian Ray Allen Billington. Sharply critical of the United States government's cruelty toward Native Americans, this monumental study chronicles the maltreatment of Indians as far back as the American Revolution. Focusing on the Delaware and the Cheyenne, the text also documents and deplores the sufferings of the Sioux, Nez Percé, Ponca, Winnebago, and Cherokee--revealing, in the process, a succession of broken treaties, the government's forced removal of tribes from choice lands, and other examples of inhuman treatment of the nation's 300,000 Indians. Within a year of its 1881 publication, this ever-relevant reference played an instrumental role in the creation of the powerful Indian Rights Association. Unabridged republication of the classic 1881 edition.
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Significant book
This book is, I think,the first to explore the frequent gap between American ideals and practice, something that began with a slave owner writing, "All men are created equal." It has inspired many people to study the history of the U.S. from a Native American perspective. There are, however, some drawbacks. Some treatments are very detailed e.g. the removal of the Poncas from Nebraska to Indian Territory (Oklahoma), while others are sketchy, e.g. the Trail of Tears of the Cherokees. It is also written in the florid style of the late 19th century. All in all, it is still a very important book and worth reading.

A book that helped change public opinon
This is the book that originally started changing the opinion of the American public regarding government policy toward the native tribes. Helen Hunt Jackson wrote this book in the 19th century, not the 20th, and it took many years before she saw the tide of public opinion start to change, but it was well worth it: when you're right, you don't back down even if you're a lone voice in a wilderness.

I highly recommend this book, and am glad I could obtain such a historic text for my own. ... Read more

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Why do so many women of faith have such a strong aversion to feminism? And why do so many feminists have an ardent mistrust of religion? These questions are at the heart of Helen LaKelly Hunt's illuminating look at the alliance between spiritual conviction and social action. Intelligent and heartfelt, Faith and Feminism offers a perceptive look at the lives of five spirited and spiritual women of history, women who combined their undying faith with feminist beliefs and who made the world a better place by doing so.

• St. Teresa of Ávila, a woman whose bravery in confronting her shadows gave her the strength to connect with the world and live a life of divine action.

• Lucretia Mott, a Quaker minister, who rose from her quiet upbringing to become a passionate speaker and activist working tirelessly on behalf of justice and peace.

• Sojourner Truth, a Christian slave, who spoke out with unwavering courage to claim her God-given rightful place as an African American and a woman.

• Emily Dickinson, an extraordinary poet, who touched the world with her ability to capture and transform the experience of suffering.

• Dorothy Day, a radical journalist, who lived a life of voluntary poverty as a way of expressing her passion for the Christian faith and care for those in need.

A remarkable book that focuses on the idea that spirituality and feminism are really different expressions of the same impulse to make life more whole, Faith and Feminism offers a powerful catalyst for reflecting on our sense of self -- and for living and loving according to our deepest values. ... Read more

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Faith and Feminism
Helen LaKelly Hunt does an excellent job of demonstrating how faith permeates authentic feminism.She traces faith in the foundations of the movement and how it was exemplified in the lives of the five prominent feminists she chose.She carries this theme forward to how we can participate in bringing feminism to wholenesss today.

A call to action
A call to action and service growing out of both faith and feminist ideals.Much still needs to be done to address women's justice issues.

Good Idea.....Not Well Executed
I was very excited about this book when I found it.As a woman of faith, I thought it would be interesting to see examples of women who had combined their feminist viewpoints with their faith.How they battled a world dominated by men with their religion as well.However, the book did not live up to the promise.The book is made to feature five women:St. Teresa of Avila, Lucretia Mott, Sojourner Truth, Emily Dickinson and Dorothy Day.While each story is compelling, it is all to brief.Each women have one chapter each, which gives basically a brief life story.It does not really go into depth how these women implemented their faith into their quest for women's right.It seemed more of an overview, designed for a class to discuss.Not for the solitary reader.

Also, I was not pleased with the use of the Imago Relationship Theory in the book.This is a book about feminism and faith, not about couple therapy.Just didn't seem to fit the book.

The little chapters on the women are interesting, however I was hoping for a more in depth discussion, than the overview presented in this book.Maybe in the future, the author will go back to this topic and revisit these women in better detail. ... Read more

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Originally published in 1892.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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Novelist, travel writer, and essayist Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885) was one of the most successful authors and most passionate intellects of her day. Ralph Waldo Emerson also regarded her as one of America's greatest poets. Today Jackson is best remembered for Ramona, a romantic novel set in the rural Southern Californian Indian and Californio communities of her day. Ramona, continuously in print for over a century, has become a cultural icon, but Jackson's prolific career left us with much more, notably her achievements as a prose writer and her work as an early activist on behalf of Native Americans. This long-overdue biography of Jackson's remarkable life and times reintroduces a distinguished figure in American letters and restores Helen Hunt Jackson to her rightful place in history.

Discussing much new material, Kate Phillips makes extensive use of Jackson's unpublished private correspondence. She takes us from Jackson's early years in rural New England to her later pioneer days in Colorado and to her adventerous travels in Europe and Southern California. The book also gives the first in-depth discussions of Jackson's writing in every genre, her beliefs about race and religion, and the significance of her chronic illnesses. Phillips also discusses Jackson's intimate relationships--with her two husbands, her mentor Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the famed actress Charlotte Cushman, and the poet Emily Dickinson. Phillips concludes with a re-evaluation of Ramona, discussing the novel as the earliest example of the California dystopian tradition in its portrayal of a state on the road to self-destruction, a tradition carried further by writers like Nathanael West and Joan Didion.

In this gripping biography, Phillips offers fascinating glimpses of how social context both shaped and inspired Jackson's thinking, highlighting the inextricable presence of gender, race, and class in American literary history and culture and opening a new window onto the nineteenth century. ... Read more

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One of those authors...
...you just can't get over,once you've read her work you want to know everything there is to know about her! ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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Why buy the milk when you can get it free
Not that many will be reading this (the last comment was made in 2002), but if you do a google search of the title you can read the original edition in apdf format.

Essential reading regarding mistreatment of Native Americans
Helen Hunt Jackson was a pioneer in the movement by "palefaces of conscience" for more humane treatment of the American "Indian".She (through her writings) was responsible for elimination of the worst abuses by the US Army and the Indian Bureau.This book (the capstone of her research) outlines the findings she made the original wording of treaties with various tribes and how the whites, not the Native Americans, had been the ones to abrogate the treaties.

Anyone interested in justice for Native peoples needs to read this book.I found it hard to obtain through the library systems in the Philadelphia, PA area (and we have some of the best available). I highly recommend this for any citizen who considers themself informed.

A Classic
Like books written by Dickens and Hemmingway, this book is a classic.Written over a century ago, it describes actions and policies of the US and its people towards native Americans that are horrific, cruel and downright unamerican.

Yet he who is ignorant of history is condemned to repeat it.In this case, even though the history was well documented in this book, we continued to repeat it through continued mistreatment.

Helen Jackson's book is evidence that Americans knew what they were doing, knew that what they were doing was cruel and wrong and that they did it anyway.

Brave Pioneer for Native American Rights
Bearing in mind that this book was written at the time whenNative Americans were still "Savages" and totally responsible for all atrocities perpetrated in the west,in the eyes of the White Europeans, Helen Hunt Jackson made a brave stand in trying to educate these same people to the needs and requirements of the Native Americans.

With each chapter given to a different Native American nation she tries, and in my opinion succedes,to make people understand the hopelessness the Native Americans found themselves in, and the only recourse they had was to fight to preserve their way of life, all too sadly with devestating consequences.

Through each chapter the same theme occurs, the whites cheat,steal, murder, and abuse the Native American and very few Whites tried to correct these wrong doings, and the biggest offender the US Government, and even today the US Government do not appear to be too interested in the Native Americans.

The book is "heavy going", and one can be forgiven in thinking, as they read through it, that I've been here before, because the facts are presented in the same way for every nation, but that notwithstanding, I feel this is a book that should be in anyones librarywho professes to have an interest inNative Americans.

Yes Helen Hunt Jackson was a brave pioneer to voice her opinions in favour of the redman all those years ago, had more people listend, perhaps the Native American culture in all its glory would still be with us today.

4 1/2 stars, but a classic of permanent value
This (unfortunately) timeless work is a scathing indictment of US Indian policy from independence until the 1880s. It includes a general treatment of bad-faith attitudes and policies, and a series of more detailed case studies of exceptionally egregious violations of legal treaties & human rights. It is timeless because of ongoing popular and official ignorance or lack of concern for American Indian rights, economic problems and indigenous culture---witness, for just one chilling example, the continuing imprisonment of Oglala/Anishinaabe activist Leonard Peltier, for murders he did not commit.

Jackson was a pioneer activist for Indian rights, and commitment shines through on nearly every page. While it is true that her writing style may seem dated to some contemporary undergraduates, her subject's intrinsic interest holds the attention of any reader with more than a marginal interest in the topic. It is still useful for research purposes, though it is perhaps most valuable for history and/or anthropology courses on changing attitudes & policy toward Indians.

In teaching about American Indian history, a main reservation about assigning it is the need to present what Indians themselves have said and/or written about their encounters with Euro-Americans. For a fine variety of views on these issues, see P. Nabokov ed, "Native American Testimony," and (among many other sources) memorable works by two premier Indigenous scholar-activists: Ward Churchill, "From A Native Son," and Vine Deloria Jr., "Custer Died For Your Sins." ... Read more

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The complex legacy of a pioneer woman writer and advocate for Native American justiceBest known for A Century of Dishonor and Ramona, Helen Hunt Jackson was a widely published writer in the mid-nineteenth century. Her work spanned two decades and ranged from many anonymous pieces of travel writing to poetry, romantic fiction, children s literature, and parenting advice. Along with popular literature, she was also writing and publishing tracts, novels, and articles on the conditions Native Americans were living under after a century of dealing with the U.S. government and American settlers.While the nonfiction A Century of Dishonor, written after extensive research and intrepid travel, brought attention to what was happening to Indians, it was Ramona that captured the public s imagination. In much the same way that Uncle Tom s Cabin exposed the cruelty of slavery, the love story Ramona depicted the plight of southern California s landless Indians and changed the perception of many about the laws and policies of the day. A Separate Star is shaped by the editor s interest in presenting, through selections not readily found in print today, a portrait of Jackson as a writer whose attitudes and beliefs on an array of subjects influenced her times. Were she around today, it would be easy to imagine Jackson as an activist at the center of domestic and cultural political issues. Her work is still compelling and clearly part of the long road to change that we are on today. ... Read more

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In 1873, Helen Hunt left New England for a temporary stay in Colorado on the advice of her physician. In Colorado Springs her health was restored, her literary career flourished, and the personal losses and grief she had suffered were assuaged by her marriage to William Sharpless Jackson. The town remained her primary residence until her death in 1885.

Although initially reluctant to move to Colorado, she was struck by the beauty around her and became an enthusiaastic spokesperson for the state. She used her considerable literary talents to describe the wonders of her new surroundings. Professor Mark West introduces the modern reader to Jackson's eloquent travel descriptions, fiction, and poetry. These selections were written and published while she lived in Colorado Springs and have as their subject either frontier life in Colorado or the natural beauty of the area. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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It's been more than three decades since Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt -- the best-selling authors of Getting the Love You Want and Keeping the Love You Find -- created Imago Relationship Therapy. Their concept of the conscious marriage introduced a new paradigm for understanding the dynamics of couples. Since that time more than two thousand clinicians in twenty-eight countries have adopted and implemented this highly effective form of couples therapy. This groundbreaking book offers an overview of the highly successful Imago Relationship Therapy (IRT) and the relationship of IRT with preceding schools of thought such as psychoanalytic theory, family systems theories, affect theory, and self-psychology. At the heart of IRT is a three-step process involving mirroring (reflecting) the partner's feelings, validating the partner's point of view, and the expressing empathy toward the partner's feelings. Imago Relationship Therapy traces IRT's history and explosive growth and outlines the differences and similarities between Imago theory and other models of couples therapy. The book also presents some of the ideas of prominent Imago thinkers, such as the central role of connectivity and the problem of envy in committed relationships. ... Read more

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GREAT READ
A great text, hard read but full of great info, very much written for the professional, but full of great stuff, if you want to move to the next level get it and read it

Change your reflection from the inside out
The concept of the imago (Latin for match) in romantic relationship is based on the theory that we fall in love with those who most closely match our primary caregivers' negative and positive traits. OR we are selecting partners who are the polar opposites of those patterns we experienced in childhood. If this is correct it is no wonder that some relationships reflect a kind of "same role, different actor" scenario. The person you are dating may seem completley different from the others but it winds up playing out the same script and ending. This is not an indictment that something is wrong with you as a person. Rather, it hints that there may be an outdated imago match unconsciously driving these events to you. By changing and updating your imago match to suit an emotionally healthy partnership in the future, your life stories can change for the better. When you change the blueprint you have a different ending. Isn't it time for a happy ending after enough tragedy for a lifetime?

For more on the Imago Relationship Theory: http://imagorelationships.org/public.htm ... Read more

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A Best That's None Too Good
Evelen I Banning is not a facile writer. Fortunately, on the other hand, she's a dutiful researcher, writing about a personality who was compelling enough in her own right to bear her tale along. If you're interested in Helen Hunt Jackson, this is one of the best resources on an American character, very popular in her own time, whose fame has slipped some since her own day.

When I say popular, I mean to say that the death of Helen Hunt Jackson, too young, in 1884, at age 54 or thereabouts, occasioned for America a day of national mourning. In her own time, "facile" would have been too mildly condescending a faint praise for a prose style as vividly engaging as Jackson's, and her poetry was good too. Toward the end of her life, her main claim to fame was her espousal of the plight of the Native Americans. Today she is more often remembered as the great friend of, and perhaps original discoverer of, Emily Dickinson, whose literary executor she petitioned to become, and might have become, had she not predeceased Emily by a year or so. In equal parts a lady of the old school and lifelong rogue of the first water, HHJ was smart, funny, noble, capaciously sympathetic and a true poet, who could write like an angel or a devil, depending, and her life and writings remain as a fascinating, if too long neglected, field of American literary and cultural inquiry. ... Read more