As of 2014[update], the tribe includes 369 enrolled citizens, who live within the state of Oklahoma as well as Texas, Louisiana, and Arizona.
[4] The Dawes Allotment Act of 1887 and the Curtis Act of 1898, intended to increase assimilation, provided for allotments of land to individual households from the communal reservation lands and sale of the "surplus"; in addition, it required the extinguishing of tribal governments and courts.
Due to its historic relationship with the Muscogee Creek Nation, which became federally recognized in 1972, tribal citizens can maintain dual citizenship in both tribes.
Its tribal jurisdictional area, as opposed to a reservation, spans Creek, Hughes, Mayes, McIntosh, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Rogers, Seminole, Tulsa, and Wagoner counties in Oklahoma.
It does not require a minimum blood quantum, but dictates that as long as you can trace your lineage through one or both parents who were citizens of the tribe at the time of your birth, citizenship can be granted to you.
[6] Certain federal benefits for qualified Native Americans, such as educational scholarships, do require certain blood quantum.
The tribe maintains a close relationship with the Muscogee Creek Nation and falls under the jurisdiction of their tribal courts.