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An astounding tale, brilliantly told, of one man's simple dignity caught up in a hurricane of greed and chicanery. - Mike Davis, author of Dead Cities and Other Tales A historical tour-de-force that dramatically and depressingly shows how a confluence of law, racial attitudes, scheming individuals, and bureaucratic institutions devastated the considerable rights and resources of Jackson Barnett, a Creek Nation citizen, and by extension the rights of other similarly situated indigenous people. Thorne's lucid account is a worthy and timely successor to Angie Debo's And Still the Waters Run, a penetrating analysis of the systematic fraud and dispossession that was perpetuated on the citizens of the Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma by similar forces. Finally, this work graphically shows that oil-its exploration and exploitation-has long played a major role in indigenous politics as well as in national and international politics. -David E. Wilkins, University of Minnesota For anyone interested in American Indians, this book is a must read about surviving cultural change for many traditionalists learning the ways of the white man in the early twentieth century. -Donald L. Fixico, University of Kansas Not just the life story of Jackson Barnett, this is a story of the government's failure to meet its trust responsibility to protect 'restricted' or 'incompetent' Indians from those who preyed upon them and their oil-generated wealth. It is the story of the culture of greed that gripped early Oklahoma-a complex, sad, and sometimes ugly story, masterfully told. -Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr., University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Not just the life story of Jackson Barnett, this is a story of the government's failure to meet its trust responsibility to protect 'restricted' or 'incompetent' Indians from those who preyed upon them and their oil-generated wealth. It is the story of the culture of greed that gripped early Oklahoma-a complex, sad, and sometimes ugly story, masterfully told. -Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr., University of Arkansas at Little Rock For anyone interested in American Indians, this book is a must read about surviving cultural change for many traditionalists learning the ways of the white man in the early twentieth century. -Donald L. Fixico, University of Kansas A historical tour-de-force that dramatically and depressingly shows how a confluence of law, racial attitudes, scheming individuals, and bureaucratic institutions devastated the considerable rights and resources of Jackson Barnett, a Creek Nation citizen, and by extension the rights of other similarly situated indigenous people. Thorne's lucid account is a worthy and timely successor to Angie Debo's And Still the Waters Run, a penetrating analysis of the systematic fraud and dispossession that was perpetuated on the citizens of the Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma by similar forces. Finally, this work graphically shows that oil-its exploration and exploitation-has long played a major role in indigenous politics as well as in national and international politics. -David E. Wilkins, University of Minnesota An astounding tale, brilliantly told, of one man's simple dignity caught up in a hurricane of greed and chicanery. - Mike Davis, author of Dead Cities and Other Tales

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Tanis C. Thorne teaches Native American Studies at the University of California, Irvine.

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