Keetoowah Society Divergence
Other Cherokee political factions arose among the Keetoowah, partly due to concerns about potential land claims, partly to organize formally as a federally recognized Tribe: the Cherokee Immigrant Indians, and the Eastern Emigrant and Western Cherokee Association. These factions of Oklahoma Keetoowah Cherokee by blood pulled together a coalition from the northern 14 counties of Oklahoma between 1920 and 1924, electing a Chief (Levi Gritts), and an Executive Council of Cherokee by Blood out of the body of the Keetoowah Society, Inc. During the 1930s, the majority of Keetoowah factions supported the idea of reorganizing all the Keetoowah Cherokee in all the old clan districts as a united Band under the proposed 1934 Indian Reorganization Act, which was intended to return more self-government to Native Americans. The Cherokees by Blood, representing all Cherokee descendants rather than only the Keetoowah, failed in 1932 to obtain standing as a party to the Cherokee claims litigation.
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