Career
Posey studied writing at Bacone. He read naturalists such as John Burroughs and Henry David Thoreau, who inspired him to write about the landscape of his childhood.
Posey worked at Indian Journal, where he published poems. In 1895, he became a member of the Creek National Council. He was also the director of a Creek Orphanage.
In 1901, Posey edited the journal Eufaula Indian Journal and received national recognition for founding the first Indian-published Indian-published daily newspaper.
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