Ikkemotubbe

Ikkemotubbe, or "Doom," as he rechristens himself, is described as a "dispossessed American king" (325). He is the chief of the Chickasaw tribe that once occupied a "vast lost domain" in Northern Mississippi (325). In the "Appendix," he is described as "a man of wit and imagination as well as a shrewd judge of character, including his own" (325). Although in other Faulkner texts, Doom is often described as powerful, intimidating, and ruthless, his actions in the "Appendix" indicate that his power has limits. He trades a square mile of land so that he and his people can "proceed in peace" to Oklahoma, merely attempting to mitigate the discomfort of his tribe's uprooting when the U. S. shifted from 'voluntary migration' to 'forced migration' to 'remove' the Indian population from southern frontier.