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Johnston was elected to a non-consecutive third term as
Governor in 1904. This was the last election under the traditional Chickasaw Nation government. In August 1906, without consent from the tribal or federal government, an election was held in which Peter Maytubby won the office of Governor. He
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Johnston lobbied
Washington politicians into passing the Supplemental Agreement of 1902 to modify this treaty, in order to allow the Chickasaw and Choctaw to review tribal citizenship cases that had been accepted by the
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in 1897 which allotted communal tribal lands to individual households. In the 1920s he successfully sued the federal government in the US Court of Claims, to recover monies illegally obtained from tribal resources.
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Cheadle Walker (1818 – c. 1863, Chickasaw), and her husband, "Colonel" John Johnston, Sr., who was European American. The third of four sons, he was born in
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Chickasaw girls funded by the Chickasaw Nation and the Methodist Church. He was completing the term of the previous Superintendent, Robert Boyd. The academy had been modeled on
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in 1886. A few years later, in 1889 Johnston married Lorena
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kinship system, children were considered born into their mother's clan and took their status from her. Johnston's name is sometimes given as "Douglas
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In 1881, he married Nellie Bynum, a Chickasaw woman of partial European descent. They had two sons and one daughter. Nellie died of
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bears the name of Douglas H. Johnston as grantor, representing sovereignty of that soil. That, in itself, is a monument.
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in 1906 as governor of the Chickasaw tribe under federal authority. He served until his death in office in 1939.
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broke up much of the communal lands of the tribes. It changed how tribal lands were allocated and regulated in
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National Register of Historic Places - Application Form. "White House of the Chickasaws." August 5, 1971.
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