Membership criteria from the UCF bylaws:

There shall be a general class of members, they will be Individual Cherokee people that are recognized as a Cherokee National as a descendant of the original Cherokee Nation Citizens on the Dawes Rolls,  as members of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma (CNO) or the United Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma (UKB). And their Non Cherokee spouses as Cherokee Nationals per old Cherokee law  membership shall be without regard to number of members, residency, blood degree or race. The terms and conditions of membership shall be as the Foundation, perpetual and with descendancy inclusive. Our goal is to one day reorganize as a Group of Cherokee as a Cherokee Government  of, by, and for the Cherokee People. UCN Citizens are welcomed JOIN THE UCFI today!

We are fully legal and ready to do business, by fact of the laws of Oklahoma,  with the proper filling for  the coporate charter. We are working on obtaining the tax exempt status letter from the IRS for the purpose of offering certification for your claiming  income  deduction  on donations you may make to the Foundation.

If anyone would like to make a contribution to our cause of helping the needy, and would need to claim a deduction on yout taxes. While  I was out researching the process for obtaining the status letter I found the following From the Question and Answer Section for preparing the form for this Internal Revenue Service Status letter. This question and answer was posted: 

Question:
Can I start receiving contributions before Form 1023 is approved?    

Answer: Generally, yes. The IRS 501(c)(3) recognition is usually retroactively effective to the earlier of 1) the organization’s legal formation or 2) the commencement of its programs. This means that the organization’s activities are retroactively tax-exempt and donations are retroactively tax-deductible to the donor, extending even to prior tax years. Under certain circumstances, IRS tax-exemption may only be retroactive to the date of the filing of Form 1023.