Alex Posey
Title | Alex Posey PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel F. Littlefield |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | 346 |
Release | 1997-06-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780803279681 |
Most of Alexander Posey's short and remarkable life was devoted to literary pursuits. Through a widely circulated satirical column published under the pseudonym Fus Fixico, he did much to document and draw attention to conditions in Indian Territory. He rose to prominence among the Creeks and played a leading role as spokesman on a number of serious political issues. Daniel F. Littlefield Jr. has written the first full biography of Alexander Posey, a pioneer of American Indian literature and a shaper of public opinion. Daniel F. Littlefield Jr. is a professor of English at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and director of the American Native Press Archives. He is the editor, with Carol A. Petty Hunter, of Alexander Posey's Fus Fixico Letters (Nebraska 1993).
Alex Posey, the Creek Indian Poet
Title | Alex Posey, the Creek Indian Poet PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander Lawrence Posey |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 210 |
Release | 1910 |
Genre | Creek Indians |
ISBN |
Alex Posey
Title | Alex Posey PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel F. Littlefield |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | 352 |
Release | 1992-01-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780803228993 |
Most of Alexander Posey?s short and remarkable life was devoted to literary pursuits. Through a widely circulated satirical column published under the pseudonym Fus Fixico, he did much to document and draw attention to conditions in Indian Territory. He rose to prominence among the Creeks and played a leading role as spokesman on a number of serious political issues. Daniel F. Littlefield Jr. has written the first full biography of Alexander Posey, a pioneer of American Indian literature and a shaper of public opinion.
Chinnubbie and the Owl
Title | Chinnubbie and the Owl PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander Lawrence Posey |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | 141 |
Release | 2005-12-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0803205279 |
Though he died at the age of thirty-four, the Muscogee (Creek) poet, journalist, and humorist Alexander Posey (1873-1908) was one of the most prolific and influential American Indian writers of his time. This volume of nine stories, five orations, and nine works of oral tradition is the first to collect these entertaining and important works of Muscogee literature. Many of Posey's stories reflect trickster themes; his orations demonstrate both his rhetorical prowess and his political stance as a "Progressive" Muscogee; and his works of oral tradition reveal his deep cultural roots. Most of these pieces, which first appeared between 1892 and 1907 in Indian Territory newspapers and magazines, have since become rarities, many of the original pieces surviving only as single clippings in a few archives.
Lost Creeks
Title | Lost Creeks PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander Lawrence Posey |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | 200 |
Release | 2009-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0803224710 |
Lost Creeks collects for the first time all the journals and shorter autobiographical works of noted Muscogee (Creek) writer, humorist, and political activist Alexander Posey (1873 1908). In his brief but productive life Posey became an influential political spokesperson, man of letters, and advocate for better conditions in Indian Territory. Posey s journals reveal much about his turbulent but noteworthy political career, his personal aspirations and challenges, and the creative process behind not only his poetry and short stories but also his famed Fus Fixico letters. Drawing on extensive archival research, Matthew Wynn Sivils produces a carefully annotated edition of the journals and also provides abundant contextual information. This volume enriches and personalizes the legacy of this remarkable Native writer and provides new insight into the beginnings of twentieth-century Native intellectual, political, and literary movements and traditions.
Song of the Oktahutche
Title | Song of the Oktahutche PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander Lawrence Posey |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | 288 |
Release | 2008-12-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780803210790 |
Muscogee (Creek) writer and humorist Alexander Posey (1873–1908) lived most of his short but productive life in the Muscogee Nation, in what is now Oklahoma. He was an influential political spokesperson, an advocate for improving conditions in Indian Territory, and one of the most prominent American Indian literary figures of his era. One of Posey’s dearest subjects was the Oktahutche River, which he so loved that he gave it voice in his poem, “Song of the Oktahutche.” His poetry, drawing from Romantic European and Euro-American influences such as Robert Burns and John Greenleaf Whittier, became a sort of Indian Territory pastoral in which the Greek nymph Echo shares a river with Stechupco, the Tall Man spirit of the Muscogees. Song of the Oktahutche collects for the first time all of Posey’s poetry, which has until now been scattered in various rare volumes, either unpublished or replete with textual errors. His highly regarded poems constitute the largest body of Native poetry from the turn of the twentieth century. Matthew Wynn Sivils draws on extensive archival research to produce a complete, accurate, and meticulously annotated edition of Posey’s poetry that will further enrich and personalize the legacy of this remarkable Native author.
The American Indian Mind in a Linear World
Title | The American Indian Mind in a Linear World PDF eBook |
Author | Donald Fixico |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 236 |
Release | 2013-07-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1135389675 |
Currently, there are three approaches to studying American Indians: from how white Americans approach Indian studies, from the dynamics or exchange of Indian-white relations and from the Indian point of view. Donald Fixico, an American Indian, has been teaching and writing history for a quarter of a century. This book is the direct result of his experience as a scholar who 'thinks like an Indian' in an academic environment created predominantly by non-Indian thinkers. This book addresses current approaches to studying Native American traditional knowledge and acknowledges an Indian intellectualism that has up until now been ignored in studying Native American history. Written primarily from inside the Native world, but fully cognizant of the American cultures outside of that world, his unique voice speaks to a need for understanding the interior Native world: a world in which linear thinking is atypical and circularity is preferable.