Download or read book The United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma written by Georgia Rae Leeds and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leeds (history, Northeaster State U., Oklahoma) examines the history of one of the smaller groups of Cherokee in Oklahoma and their current struggle to gain sovereignty and other benefits of their recognition as the real Cherokee by the US government in 1946. They claim that their band predates the others and is over half pure-blood, whereas other groups are political organizations most of whom are less than one-quarter Indian blood. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR