ABSTRACT
This chapter studies the British reviews of Helen Hunt Jackson’s Indian reform writing in A Century of Dishonour (1881) and Ramona (1884) and British press responses to the Ghost Dance, armed conflict at Wounded Knee, and Zitkala-Ša’s Old Indian Legends (1902). The reception of these book volumes was scant and lukewarm, suggesting that British reviewers found similarities between the indigenous conflicts arising in the United States and those in the British Empire that needed to be disavowed. At the same time, some reviews do register a critique of imperialism and increasing respect for Native cultural traditions.
