Earnest Gouge

Earnest Gouge was a full-blood Muscogee (Creek) author born around 1865 in the Muscogee Nation, Indian Territory, who was hired in 1915 to write 29 traditional Creek stories in the traditional Muskogee alphabet. He is the nephew of the famous Creek chief Opothleyahola and dictated additional Creek texts about ball-games and his tribal town for linguist Mary R. Haas. Gouge died on September 4, 1955, at approximately age ninety after being hit by a car while riding a horse.