"Helen Hunt Jackson and Her Indian Reform Legacy "is a detailed account of the last six years of Jackson s life (1879 1885), when she struggled to promote the rights of American Indians displaced and dispossessed by the U.S. government. Valerie Sherer Mathes places Jackson s work within the larger nineteenth-century Indian rights movement and details her crusade of traveling, writing, and lobbying government officials. Jackson s efforts culminated in the publication of "A Century of Dishonor, "an indictment of the government s Indian policy, and the novel "Ramona, "a sympathetic portrayal of the plight of California s Mission Indians. Her influence was felt immediately in the actions of subsequent reform workers in the Women s National Indian Association, the Indian Rights Association, and the Lake Mohonk Conference.".