Green McCurtain

Male, Deceased Person

1848 – 1910

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Who was Green McCurtain?

Greenwood "Green" McCurtain was Principal Chief of the Choctaw Nation and, serving four two-year terms. He was the third of his brothers to be elected as chief, and after 1906 and the dissolution of tribal governments under the Dawes Act, he was appointed as chief by the United States government.

Green McCurtain represented his tribe as a delegate at the Sequoyah Constitutional Convention, an effort by American Indian nations to create an Indian-controlled state in what is now Oklahoma.

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Born
Nov 18, 1848
United States of America
Died
Dec 27, 1910

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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