after helen's death and on her recommendation, her husband, we'll jackson, eventually remarried helens nies helland. helen thought this would be a good match for real. she wanted him to have children. she wanted him to a federal domestic life that she was never able to give him and so she actually encouraged her husband to court and to eventually marry her knees and the two did marry a few short years later they had seven children. as the family grew and expanded the house to accommodate all of the children, but these three rooms remained intact, almost as an ecma he will, with all of helen hunt jackson's original possessions in place. so it almost remained as a shrine. in the 1960s of the house is going to be razed to make way for the police station, the family worked with the city of colorado springs to bring these three rooms into the colorado springs museum where they are today. today she is seen as a remarkable 19th century women who push the boundaries of what was acceptable. and what about my remains in print to this day. it's one of the most widely published books in the world.

. >> during our recent visit to colorado springs, colorado, we visited the helen hunt jackson exhibitt the colorado springs pioneers museum with curator leah davis-witherow. >> helen hunt jackson was a notable 19th century author and one of the earliest residents of colorado springs she can to get close greece in 1873 as a prescription for ongoing health troubles that she was suffering, but by the time she arrived here she was already a famous author. she made quite a splash, as you can imagine. her first book of verse is was published in 1870. she published in magazines like the century, atlantic monthly, scriveners. this is her writing room, restudy, the personal study of helen hunt jackson. we have some of her books throughout the three rooms of her home. what we love about having her house in the museum is that we can interpreter life based upon these objects. so you can see that helen loved beautiful things. she was a victorian woman of her era, and so she has these beautiful watercolor paintings done by ellis stuart hill, who was a friend of hers here in colorado springs, and sh

i would like to say to macarro that you mentioned helen hunt jackson. she had formed the boston indian citizenship committee which in 1879 managed to get a bill through the senate to indemnify the tonka. that is our connection. she was a wonderful lady. she was an advocate for native americans. the treaty of 1857 with upon he pawnee government, it has an effect on my great, great grandfather. that affect was that you -- your grandfather's had sold land for seven cents an acre, so the issues between the tribes are evident there in that particular situation. i don't know if you are aware of that are not. there was a treaty in 1858 ceading the land. why did they want $.11 when the pawnee sold it for seven cents? to professor robinson, i know the doctrine of discovery has presently been questioned and maybe there are intentions of resending it. that hopefully will happen. where will the doctrine that you are speaking about that the supreme court justice had put in place, where will it stand then? thank you. >> you can decide if you want to respond. was the

jackson, but the indians that he ordered removed from the southeastern states of the united states. you know, our heroes are not the war makers, not theodore roosevelt, but mark twain. not woodrow, but helenller. speaking in 2005. viggo mortensen wrote -- read an exit who wrote a short account of the destruction of the indies. inthe indies were discovered 1492. perhaps the most densely populated place in the world. 200e must be close to leaves of land, and it is discovered as a beehive of people. it is as though god had crowded into the land the great majority of mankind, and all the incumbent unit -- infinite universe of humanity, they are the most obedient and faithful to their native masters and spanish christians who they serve. it is are so we can complacent, they are less likely to indoor heavy labor and soon die of no matter what malady. yet into this land of make outcasts, there came a to immediate be behave like wild beasts, wolves, tigers, lions that have been starved for many days, killing, terrorizing, afflicting, torturing, destroying the native peoples. doing all this with the most varied new methods of cruelty never seen or heard of before, and to such a degree that this is