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

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The primary biography of Jackson Barnett, who gained unexpected wealth from oil found on his property. This book explores how keep watch over of his fortune was once 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 20 years and stimulated Congress to make long-past due reforms in its policies towards Indians. Highlighting the paradoxical role played by the government as both purported protector and pilferer of Indian money, and replete with a few of the major agents in twentieth-century Native American history, this remarkable story is not just captivating in its own right but highly symbolic of The usa’s diseased and corrupt national Indian policy.

The World’s Richest Indian was once the winner of the Sierra Prize of the Western Association of Ladies Historians.

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