“In this landmark book for federal Indian policy, David Beck lays bare embedded practices of federal financial theft from tribes. Instead of serving as a proper trustee to tribal nations, the United States colluded across branches of government to spend funds in support of federal aims, intentionally leaving tribes bereft.”—Laurie Arnold (Sinixt Band, Colville Confederated Tribes), author of Bartering with the Bones of Their Dead: The Colville Confederated Tribes and Termination
“Beck’s documentation of the federal government’s cruel attempts at coercing tribal nations to accept political and economic termination by withholding what already rightfully belonged to them, while infuriating, provides important new insight into the motivations driving past policies and the continuing need to address and repair the detrimental impacts that continue to afflict tribal nations.”—Heather Whiteman Runs Him (Crow Nation/Apsaalooke), associate clinical professor in the Indigenous Peoples’ Law and Policy Program at the University of Arizona
