Word: henryetta
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Near sandy Henryetta, Okla. (pop. 6,000), in the Old Indian Territory, Jackson Barnett, full-blooded Creek, worked his 160-acre allotment by day, rested his tired bones in a not-too-clean four-room shack by night. He was old#&151;60, maybe 70-he didn't know exactly. He was poor. He was illiterate. But he was a Govern-ment ward and he had learned that, so long as he stayed a good Indian, the Govern-ment would provide...
...money when they found that he was careless about putting his thumb print on pieces of paper. There is an undated letter now in the possession of the Department of the Interior, bearing Mr. Barnett's thumb print, which proposed to donate $1,000,000 for a hospital in Henryetta, Okla. Also, Mr. Barnett's benevolent thumb gave $550,000 to the American Baptist Home Mission Society for the benefit of poor Indians...