TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thorne,Tanis C.
AU  - Thorne,Tanis C.
TI  - The World's Richest Indian: The Scandal over Jackson Barnett's Oil Fortune
SN  - 9780198036777
AV  - E99.C9B377 2003 
U1  - 976.6004/973 B 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Cary
PB  - Oxford University Press, Incorporated
KW  - Barnett, Jackson, -- 1856-1934
KW  - United States. -- Bureau of Indian Affairs -- History
KW  - United States. -- Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes
KW  - Creek Indians -- Biography
KW  - Indians of North America -- Legal status, laws, etc
KW  - Indians of North America -- Oklahoma -- Government relations
KW  - Baptists -- Oklahoma -- History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Chronology -- Introduction -- 1 Please Pass the Injin Territory -- 2 The Making of the Incompetent Indian -- 3 Tar Baby, 1912-1920 -- 4 Anna, Adventuress of a Most Dangerous Type, 1920-1923 -- 5 Dividing the Estate, 1921-1923 -- 6 "Poor Rich Indians" and the Turning Political Tide, 1923-1925 -- 7 Battle Royal: Litigation over the Jackson Barnett Estate, 1925-1928 -- 8 Who Will Guard the Guardians? Indian Policy on Trial, 1924-1928 -- 9 Witch Hunts: The Senate Subcommittee Investigation, 1928-1929 -- 10 The Gilded Cage, 1926-1938 -- 11 The Battle of Wilshire Boulevard -- 12 Speculative and Protracted Litigation -- Epilogue: A Matter of Trust -- Appendices -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y
N2  - The first biography of Jackson Barnett, who gained unexpected wealth from oil found on his property. This book explores how control of his fortune was violently contested by his guardian, the state of Oklahoma, the Baptist Church, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and an adventuress who kidnappedand married him. Coming into national prominence as a case of Bureau of Indian Affairs mismanagement of Indian property, the litigation over Barnett's wealth lasted two decades and stimulated Congress to make long-overdue reforms in its policies towards Indians. Highlighting the paradoxical roleplayed by the federal government as both purported protector and pilferer of Indian money, and replete with many of the major agents in twentieth-century Native American history, this remarkable story is not only captivating in its own right but highly symbolic of America's diseased and corruptnational Indian policy
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