The Oklahoma Senate will dedicate a portrait of Muscogee Creek journalist and poet laureate Alexander Posey on Monday.

Posey was born in 1873. He served in the Creek National Council and started the Eufaula Indian Journal, which focused on tribal politics.

Posey died in 1908, after seeing the tribal land base in Oklahoma broken up through allotment.

The portrait of Posey will join Houston Benge Teehee (1874-1953), a Cherokee attorney and politician, as the Indian representatives in the state Senate's collection of art.

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