| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.1

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Tanis C. Thorne. The World's Richest Indian: The Scandal over Jackson Barnett's Oil Fortune. New York: Oxford University Press. 2003. Pp. xvi, 292. $35.00.

For a book offering a small slice of American Indian history, Tanis C. Thorne's narrative contributes significantly to a better understanding of lingering issues for Native Americans. Thanks to two 1830s U.S. Supreme Court decisions, the federal government assumed a trust responsibility to protect Indian legal rights as sovereign but dependent nations. The responsibility extended to individuals whose shares from accumulated tribal funds rest in federal trust accounts. Although this trust relationship has been modified over time, it has not disappeared; indeed, this special relationship between federal power and Indian persons has erupted into a major and continuing scandal in the 1990s, involving the neglect and misuse of trust accounts of over 300,000 Native Americans.

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