Creek Chief Tiger Defeated In Landslide
George Tiger ousted as Creek Nation chief
By LENZY KREHBIEL-BURTON World Correspondent
OKMULGEE — Unofficial election returns show that the Muscogee (Creek) Nation is getting a new chief.
As of 9:25 p.m. Saturday, with all precincts reporting, James Floyd led Principal Chief George Tiger, 2,964 votes, or 62 percent, to 1,820 votes, or 38 percent.
As of 10 p.m. Saturday, it was unknown how many challenge ballots were cast or how long the review process would take. Each challenge ballot is subject to individual review by the tribe’s election board.
The former director of the Veterans Administration’s Jack C. Montgomery Medical Center in Muskogee and Ernest Childers Clinic in Broken Arrow, Floyd started his professional career with the tribe in the early 1980s as its director of community services before accepting positions with Indian Health Services and the VA in Oregon, Utah and Kansas City.