This study explores how the five tribes of Oklahoma - Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminoles - strove to achieve political unity within their tribes during the first decades of the 20th century by forging a new sense of peoplehood around the idea of blood.
ONE Introduction: A Disgrace to My Blood Two Lament for a Golden Age THREE Real Indians FOUR The Importance of Being White FIVE Hardship and Decline Six Assimilation's Failure SEVEN Indians, Organize! A Peoplehood in Blood EIGHT Epilogue
"...this is recommended for Indian studies collections. Upper-division undergraduates and above." -- G. Gagnon, University of North Dakota, for CHOICE