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Ramona

by Helen Hunt Jackson

Ramona is a American novel written by Helen Hunt Jackson. Set in Southern California after the Mexican–American War, it portrays the life of a mixed-race Scottish–Native American orphan girl, who suffers racial discrimination and hardship.

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English

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English

Published In

1884

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Helen Hunt Jackson

United States

Helen Hunt Jackson (pen name, H.H.; born Helen Maria Fiske) was an American poet and writer who became an activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native Americans by the United States government....

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