There is not among these three hundred bands of indians one which has not suffered cruelly at the hands either of the government or of white settlers. the poorer, the more insignificant, the more helpless the band, the more certain the cruelty and outrage to which they have been subjected. . . it makes little difference where one opens the record of the history of the indians; every page and every year has its dark stain. . . .—helen hunt jackson, 1881 which opinion would helen hunt jackson most likely agree with?
