In Southern California, shortly after the Mexican–American War, a Scottish-Native American orphan girl, … See more

• Ramona, Scottish-Native American orphan girl
• Señora Gonzaga Moreno, sister of Ramona's dead foster mother
• Felipe Moreno, Gonzaga Moreno's only child… See more

Jackson wrote Ramona three years after A Century of Dishonor, her non-fiction study of the mistreatment of Native Americans in the United States. By following that history with a novel, she sought to portray the Indian expe… See more

Ramona was immensely popular almost immediately upon its publication in 1884, with more than 15,000 copies sold in the ten months before Jackson's death in 1885. One year after her death, the North American … See more

The widespread popularity of the novel resulted in jurisdictions naming schools (Ramona High School in Riverside), streets, freeways (the San Bernardino Freeway was originally named the Ramona Freeway) and towns (unin… See more