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

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Erik March Zissu

Product details

• Authors: Erik March Zissu, Zissu Erik March
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.08.2016
• EAN: 9781138964815
• ISBN: 978-1-138-96481-5
• No. of pages: 166
• Series: Native Americans: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Indigenous Peoples, Relating to indigenous peoples, Social and cultural history, History of the Americas, HISTORY / Indigenous / General