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.
Preface 1. Introduction: A disgrace to my blood 2. Lament for a Golden Age 3. Real Indians 4. The Importance of Being White 5. Hardship and Decline 6. Assimilation's Failure 7. Indians, Organize! A People in Blood Epilogue Endnotes Bibliography
"...this is recommended for Indian studies collections. Upper-division undergraduates and above." -- G. Gagnon, University of North Dakota, for CHOICE