| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 292 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
""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"" |
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11 The Battle of Wilshire Boulevard12 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 |
This is a biography of Jackson Barnett, who gained unexpected wealth from oil found on his property. It explores how control of his fortune was contested by his guardian, the state of Oklahoma, the Baptist Church, the Bureau of Indian Affairs and an adventuress who kidnapped and married him |
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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 kidnapped and 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 role played 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 corrupt national Indian policy |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-279) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Barnett, Jackson, 1856-1934.
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| SUBJECT |
Barnett, Jackson, 1856-1934 fast |
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United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs -- History
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United States. Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes.
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| SUBJECT |
United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs fast |
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United States. Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes fast |
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Creek Indians -- Biography
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Indians of North America -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Indians of North America -- Oklahoma -- Government relations
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Baptists -- Oklahoma -- History
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
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Baptists
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Creek Indians
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Indians of North America -- Government relations
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Indians of North America -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Oklahoma
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2002193171 |
| ISBN |
9780198036777 |
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0198036779 |
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0195162331 |
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9780195162332 |
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0195303806 |
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9780195303803 |
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9780195182989 |
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0195182987 |
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128053284X |
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9781280532849 |
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9786610532841 |
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6610532842 |
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1433700239 |
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9781433700231 |
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9780199789030 |
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0199789037 |
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