The Poems of Alexander Lawrence Posey: With a Memoir (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from The Poems of Alexander Lawrence Posey: With a Memoir

The Harjo family is noted as one of big warriors, and is the oldest of the Muskogees or Creeks. It was also the largest as far back as we have any knowledge of this people, the tribal census of 1832 showing almost one fourth of the tribe as members of it. This proportion diminished up to the time of mak ing the final rolls, but even these show the family to be very large.

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Excerpt from The Poems of Alexander Lawrence Posey

Alexander Lawrence Posey was a Creek Indian.

He was a poet of the first order, a humorist, a philosopher, a man of affairs. He achieved fame as an English-Indian dialect writer and journalist. He was the leading man of the Creeks and the one great man produced by the Confederacy known as the Five Civilized Tribes.

Posey was born in what is now McIntosh County, Oklahoma, eight miles west of Eufaula, August 3, 1873. He was accidentally drowned in the North Canadian river, near Eufaula, May 27, 1908.

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