Federal Recognition
Under the Curtis Act of 1898, the government of the Cherokee Nation was dissolved in 1906, in spite of the resistance of many of its members. The only remnant left was the office of the Principal Chief, held by William Charles Rogers, who had earlier been deposed by the National Council in 1905 for cooperating on the tribe's dissolution and replaced with Frank J. Boudinot (who was also the leader of the Keetoowah Nighthawk Society); Rogers was re-imposed upon the Cherokee Nation by the federal government the next year in order to carry out land sales and held office until 1914, after which the position was dormant.
The Indian Reorganization Act (1934) and Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act (OIWA, 1936) were passed in the 1930s, under the Indian New Deal to facilitate tribes reorganizing their governments. Many of the more traditional members of the former Cherokee Nation began to organize under their terms. In the meantime, the President of the United States started Principal Chiefs for the Cherokee.
The UKB was approved in 1950 under the Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act. Early elected leaders of the UKB were Levi Gritts, followed by John Hitcher and the Reverend Jim Pickup, who served in the post-World War II era.
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