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
166 Pages
by
Routledge
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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