1st Edition

Blood Matters Five Civilized Tribes and the Search of Unity in the 20th Century

By Erik March Zissu Copyright 2002
    166 Pages
    by Routledge

    166 Pages
    by Routledge

    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

    Biography

    Erik March Zissu

    "...this is recommended for Indian studies collections. Upper-division undergraduates and above." -- G. Gagnon, University of North Dakota, for CHOICE