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The World's Richest Indian : The Scandal over Jackson Barnett's Oil Fortune.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cary : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2005Copyright date: ©2003Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (309 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780198036777
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The World's Richest IndianDDC classification:
  • 976.6004/973 B
LOC classification:
  • E99.C9B377 2003
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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