Blood Matters: Five Civilized Tribes and the Search of Unity in the 20th Century (Native Americans: Interdisciplinary Perspectives)

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.