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popular 19th-century poet and writer Helen Hunt Jackson became an activist, using her pen to fight for Native rights. A Massachusetts native, she was a classmate and lifelong friend of Emily Dickinson, and her poetry was admired, read aloud, and anthologized by Ralph Waldo Emerson. But what really put the fire in Jackson’s heart and pen was an