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Ramona Signet Classics Helen Hunt Jackson Michael Dorris Valerie Sherer Mathes Books

What can I say about a book which has been a well known and influential American classic since well over a hundred years? I guess I could start by telling my personal relationship to the story.

I get my mail in a town called Ramona, where some of the significant events of the story took place. I live in the nearby San Pasqual Valley where other significant parts of the story happened. I have a close friend member of the Kumeyaay nation, original inhabitants of the area, who tells me stories of his family related to events described in the book. There were many unpleasant happenings. For example, his grandmother's band dug a pit in which to hide the nubile daughters of the village whenever sentries warned that white men were approaching. They would put the girls in the pit and pile boards and brush on it to save them from being raped. I attended the Ramona Pageant in Hemet a number of times. So the story as a whole lies close to my person.

With all that,, I have some quibbles with the book. The particular copy I purchased from Amazon is a "print on demand" version which has none of the standard front matter. The story starts abruptly on the back side of the title page. There is a brief and somewhat inaccurate summary of the story on the back cover.

As for the story, while it presents itself as historical fiction, it actually descends in large part to the level of political propaganda. Rather than giving a realistic view of the period, it cherry picks the worst possible cases and aggregates them as representative. Not to say that the Indians were always treated well by the white settlers. San Diego County had more than its share of scoundrels, whom Ms. Jackson describes in exhaustive detail, but that is only part of the story. She stated openly that her purpose in writing the book was to stir up the American public to treat the Indians better -- a worthy cause given the general course of events in the latter part of the nineteenth century -- that she overdid it in many instances should not deprecate her for her effort, but should warn us not to take it all too seriously as fact. Important to remember there never was a half-Indan half-Scot woman named Ramona, nor an Indian named Alessandro, nor a rancho owned by Señora Moreno. These are all just frames on which to hang various historical incidents in an effort to create a story. Many of the results are not cohesive.

Altogether an interesting tale with good local color of the time. But to be redd with caution.


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Ramona Signet Classics Helen Hunt Jackson Michael Dorris Valerie Sherer Mathes Books Reviews

The author writes a painful story featuring the mistreatment of Indians by "Americans" in southern California, after it became part of the US. Her style is rather stilted, and highly romantic, but sustained my interest enough to finish it. She wanted this book to be the "Uncle Tom's Cabin" for the Indians [Native Americans]. I don't think either book has completely obtained its objective; or if they did, we have forgotten.
Great insight into the lifestyle of women of the late 1880's. Though it is fictional, this drama was the novel of its time that gave romance tears and sadness. Though Ramona changes her life to join a penniless, uneducated peasant-boy, I found the romance a bit ridiculous. Maybe created to entertain housewives you were unfulfilled in their life or to confirm that their lives were plentiful. A foolish girl alters her life after glance into an Native Indian boy eyes that she perceives to be love at first sight. I did not understand why she thought her life would be blessed with joy and not extreme hardship. Why would anyone with any sense dump Felipe who is stable and caring for someone who turns out to be unstable. The story is reminiscence of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility". The Marianne character in particular wherein she meets the grounded Colonel Brandon then drops him for the the suave John Willoughby who later drops Marianne for a beautiful heiress. Then she recuperates in the care of Colonel Brandon who she marries.
Greatly edifying novel. Author Jackson was as strong an advocate of Native Americans as a white Midwest society woman of her time could possibly be (read the terrific Introduction to this edition), and the Native and Spanish points of view of the “American” colonization of California, as filtered through her pen, make a fascinating read. RAMONA was made several times as a movie. One was by DW Griffith & can be seen on YouTube; readers should also see the newly available 1926 RAMONA starring Dolores del Rio—in which the heroine conveniently develops amnesia about her years as a Native (!), duplicating white America’s own historical amnesia...
What can I say about a book which has been a well known and influential American classic since well over a hundred years? I guess I could start by telling my personal relationship to the story.

I get my mail in a town called Ramona, where some of the significant events of the story took place. I live in the nearby San Pasqual Valley where other significant parts of the story happened. I have a close friend member of the Kumeyaay nation, original inhabitants of the area, who tells me stories of his family related to events described in the book. There were many unpleasant happenings. For example, his grandmother's band dug a pit in which to hide the nubile daughters of the village whenever sentries warned that white men were approaching. They would put the girls in the pit and pile boards and brush on it to save them from being raped. I attended the Ramona Pageant in Hemet a number of times. So the story as a whole lies close to my person.

With all that,, I have some quibbles with the book. The particular copy I purchased from is a "print on demand" version which has none of the standard front matter. The story starts abruptly on the back side of the title page. There is a brief and somewhat inaccurate summary of the story on the back cover.

As for the story, while it presents itself as historical fiction, it actually descends in large part to the level of political propaganda. Rather than giving a realistic view of the period, it cherry picks the worst possible cases and aggregates them as representative. Not to say that the Indians were always treated well by the white settlers. San Diego County had more than its share of scoundrels, whom Ms. Jackson describes in exhaustive detail, but that is only part of the story. She stated openly that her purpose in writing the book was to stir up the American public to treat the Indians better -- a worthy cause given the general course of events in the latter part of the nineteenth century -- that she overdid it in many instances should not deprecate her for her effort, but should warn us not to take it all too seriously as fact. Important to remember there never was a half-Indan half-Scot woman named Ramona, nor an Indian named Alessandro, nor a rancho owned by Señora Moreno. These are all just frames on which to hang various historical incidents in an effort to create a story. Many of the results are not cohesive.

Altogether an interesting tale with good local color of the time. But to be redd with caution.