While pleading his case to Bayard, the captured Ab Snopes says that Rosa Millard's death came as a result of what Ab and Rosa were doing "for [Bayard's] sake and his paw and them niggers" (109). He may be referring exclusively to the Sartoris slaves who are named in the story - Louvinia, Joby and Yance - but it's more likely that he also expects Bayard to include Philadelphia and Loosh in that phrase, and perhaps all the plantation's enslaved population as well.
In his brief eulogy for Rosa Millard, Fortinbride expresses his faith that in heaven "there are men, women and children, black, white, yellow or red, waiting for her to tend and worry over" (98). This unseen group is perhaps the most racially inclusive group in all the Yoknapatawpha fictions.
"Vendee" takes place after the Union army has withdrawn from the area around Yoknapatawpha, and as Bayard says, "there are no Yankees in Jefferson now" (97). But they are mentioned in the story - for example, when Uncle Buck says Grumby's viciousness makes "even the Yankees" look good in comparison (105).
The Chickasaw tribe occupied much of the area that became Yoknapatawpha County in the decades before 1830, when white settlers began to move onto the land. They are gone by the time of the story, though "Sam Fathers' Chickasaw predecessors" are referred to at one point (285), and at another the boy's prowess as a hunter and woodsman is measured by his ability to ambush a buck as "the old Chickasaw fathers did" (290).
Faulkner creates a prehistoric context for the story by referring to "the first ancestor of Sam Fathers' Chickasaw predecessors," the first human being who saw the Big Woods (285). That the man hunts with a "club or stone ax or bone arrow" seems to locate that moment hundreds if not thousands of years in the past.
The story contrasts the hunters in the Big Woods to the "men myriad and nameless even" who "gnaw" and "swarm" and "hack" at the aboriginal forest in order to clear the trees for farming (281-82). Compared to the bear, they are "puny" and "like pygmies" (282).
The narrator several times adds "and the others" to his references to the leaders of the annual hunting parties - Major de Spain, General Compson, the boy's father (281, 282). It's possible that the phrase is intended to refer to the lower class and non-white hunters Boon Hoggenbeck, Tennie's Jim and Uncle Ash, but it seems at least as likely that "the others" are additional men from Yoknapatawpha who join the hunt at various times.
