Sep 7, 2008
Article abstract: Alexander Lawrence Posey's Fus Fixico letters combined political satire, local color, and dialect humor in the tradition of Mark Twain.
Alexander Posey grew up in a large rural Oklahoma family, speaking Creek as his first language but educated in English at the Creek national public school and at Bacone Indian University. He was the first American Indian owner/editor of a daily newspaper; he published the weekly Indian Journal of Eufaula, Oklahoma. He was active in Creek politics and helped prepare the census of Creek Indians for the...
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