- Alexander Posey
Alexander Posey ( Eufaula,
Oklahoma , 1873-27 May, 1908) was anAmerindian Maskokiwriter andpolitician . [ [http://college.hmco.com/english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/late_nineteenth/posey_al.html Heath Anthology of American LiteratureAlexander Lawrence Posey - Author Page ] at college.hmco.com] [ [http://www.learner.org/amerpass/unit08/authors-8.html American Passages - Unit 8. Regional Realism: Authors ] ] He was the son of a Scottish father and a Harjo mother.Posey worked at "Indian Journal", where he published poems. In 1895, he became a member of the Creek Parliament. He was also the director of a Creek Orphanage and in 1901 he edited the journal "Eufaula Gazette", where he satirised about Creek Politics. In 1904, he worked as an interpreter in
Dawes Commission and died in an accident where he drowned while crossing the flooded Oktahutche River. There is an anthology about his works published in 1910.References
External links
* [http://e-archive.library.okstate.edu/dissertations/AAI3244608/ "The complete journals and poems of Alexander Posey" by Oklahoma State University]
* [http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Song-of-the-Oktahutche,674007.aspx Song of the Oktahutche: Collected Poems] by Alexander Posey, edited and with an introduction by Matthew Wynn Sivils (University of Nebraska Press, 2008)
* [http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Alex-Posey,673467.aspx Alex Posey: Creek Poet, Journalist, and Humorist] by Daniel F. Littlefield Jr. (University of Nebraska Press, 1992)
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