Alexander Posey
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For the general born in the 18th century, see Alexander Posey (general).
Alexander Posey ( Eufaula, Oklahoma, 1873-27 May, 1908) was an Amerindian Maskoki writer and politician. [1][2] 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.
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