Question

Helen Hunt Jackson's A Century of Dishonor is a primary source from 1881 showing that Americans protested the treatment of American Indians in the last Indian wars. Jackson's work is important to understand because:

Answer 1

It changed the attitude of white Americans toward Native Americans.

Step-by-step explanation:

Helen Hunt Jackson was born in Massachusetts, American known as a writer and poet who is famously known for her work A Century of Dishonor in 1881 and became an activist on behalf of Native Indians treatments by the United States government. By the coming of this book, it was well-received and it affected White American attitudes toward Indians later on and also the government appointed a commission to look into Indian Ponca people.