Homestead Patent No. 25428. Partly printed document signed by Green McCurtain, as Principal Chief of the Choctaw, and Douglas H. Johnston, as Governor of the Chickasaw Nation. Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, Oklahoma, 3 December 1908. 1 page, folio, 8 1/2 x 14 in. Docketed to verso. Undersigned by James Rudolph Garfield and Oliver Phelps of the Department of the Interior. With two original gilt tribal seals.

A homestead land deed granted to Mary Elizabeth Goins, a member of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations notably signed by the leaders of both tribes.

Greenwood "Green" McCurtain (1848-1910) served four 2-year terms as Principal Chief (1896-1900 and 1902-1906) and under the Dawes Act was appointed chief by the United States government. He advocated for allotment and assimilation within the United States.

Similarly, Douglas H. Johnston (1856-1939) was the last elected governor of the Chickasaw Nation (1898-1902 and 1904) and was also appointed as the Governor of the Chickasaw by United States federal authority.  

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