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Alexander Lawrence Posey , 1873-1908

Creek
Muscogee

Alexander Lawrence Posey was born in the Creek Nation. Posey did not learn to speak English until he was fourteen years of age. He attended the Creek national school at Eufaula and then spent three years at Bacone Indian University. It was at the university that he developed his love of literature. His career included superintendent of the Creek school at Ikmulgee, Eufaula, and Wetumuka; superintendent of public instruction; owner and editor of the Indian Journal at Eufaula; and field worker for the Dawes Commission.

 

Books by Alexander Lawrence Posey:

Posey, Alexander Lawrence. The Fus Fixico Letters
Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Nebraska Press, 1993.
Genre: Essays
Description: Edited by: Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr. and Carol A. Petty.
Description: xviii, 302p., illustrations, maps, 24 cm.
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 0803237049
Posey, Alexander Lawrence. The poems of Alexander Lawrence Posey
Topeka, Kansas : Crane, Printers, 1910.
Description:

Audience: Adult
Posey, Alexander Lawrence. Poems of Alexander Lawrence Posey, Creek Indian bard
Muskogee, Okla : Hoffman Printing Co, 1969.
Description: Revised edition.
Originally collected and arranged by Mrs. Minnie H. Posey. Memoir by William Elsey Connely Revised by Okmulgee Cultural Foundation and the Five Civilized Tribes Heritage Foundation. Illustrations by Joan Hill. 218 p. illus., port. 22 cm.
Audience: Adult
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