native american activists such as susette la flesche, and omaha teacher and author, and sarah winnemucca, a writer and orator inspired influential white women to join their fight for equality for the west's original peoples. one of their recruits, helen hunt jackson, a prominent journalist went on to write a century of dishonor, a blistering history of the government's treaty violations. she sent a copy to every member of congress. then that didn't work so she wrote "romona" which perhaps many of you read. i know it used to be on high school reading lists, a perennial best seller that presented the same injustices of the government's treatment of native peoples in more accessible, fictional form. unfortunately, she died before she knew that it had really captured the public's attention, and actually started some of the reforms that she wanted to see happen for the california's mission indians. suffragists have also been stereotyped as traditional wives and mothers, but a striking number of these activists like the west outstanding women in general were single, like haley morris, the home