Anne Semple

Anne Ruth Semple (June 9, 1900 – October 25, 1987) was a Native American writer and professor and the fifth poet laureate of the state of Oklahoma; appointed in 1945 by Governor Robert S.

[1] She was a professor of Education at Southeastern Oklahoma State University from at least 1947 until 1965.

[2][3] Semple was the great granddaughter of Peter Pitchlynn (Snapping Turtle),[1] who served as chief of the Choctaw nation in the 1860s, and sister to William Finley Semple who served as chief of the Choctaw nation from 1918 to 1922.

[4] She's buried in Gethsemane Cemetery in Caddo, Oklahoma.

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