Background
He was born near Anadarko, Oklahoma, into the Mcintosh family, a family which has given the Creek tribe of Oklahoma many of its chiefs. He studied at Chilocco Indian Agricultural School; Bacone College; University of Oklahoma, Norman; Oklahoma State Technical School, Okmulgee, and Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kansas, where a business administration building is named Blue Eagle Hall in his honor.
Blue Eagle served in the United States Air Corps during World War II. He died on 18 June 1959, and is buried in the National Cemetery at Fort Gibson, Oklahoma.
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