Ramona, raised on the Moreno ranch by a proud Mexican señora who never loved her, falls for Alessandro, a Luiseño sheep-shearer, and learns that her own mother was Native American. Their flight together takes them through a California where American settlers are seizing the land of the Mission Indians.
Jackson wrote it in 1884 to stir the public conscience over Native American dispossession as Uncle Tom’s Cabin had over slavery. Download the free EPUB.
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