UKB Membership
The United Keetoowah Band maintains a one-quarter-blood requirement for members. The United Keetoowah Band requires all members to have verifiable Cherokee descent either from a person or people on the Dawes Roll or the UKB Base Roll of 1949.
The UKB, beginning in the 1970s, gave some people honorary associate members, to recognize their services to the nation. Such memberships did not entitle the persons to voting or any other tribal rights, and had nothing to do with claims of Cherokee ancestry. Associate memberships were given in honorary appreciation to several people, but the tribe ended this practice in 1994. While some such recipients were given a tribal enrollment card with a number, they were never considered official members of the tribe, and did not receive tribal benefits. They no longer appear on official tribal rolls. Former President Bill Clinton is a notable associate member.
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