Log-in-the-Creek

Submitted by sfr on Sun, 2016-01-10 14:46
Text: 
"A Courtship"
Character Key: 
Log-in-the-Creek
Display Name: 
Log-in-the-Creek
Sort Name: 
Log-in-the-Creek
Race: 
Indian
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Indian Tribal Member
Rank: 
Secondary
Vitality: 
Alive
First Mentioned: 
Herman Basket's House in "A Courtship" (Location)
Home: 
Log-in-the-Creek's House in "A Courtship" (Location)
Biography: 

Log-in-the-Creek is the only one of the Chickasaw young men who does not stop courting Herman Basket's sister after Ikkemotubbe's interest in her becomes known. His unheroic name seems to fit his apparently negligible character: he cannot hold his liquor, and he "raced no horses and fought no cocks and cast no dice" (364). "Nobody paid any attention to him" (363), though the sound of the harmonica he plays constantly while sitting outside Herman Basket's house can't be ignored. To the other young Chickasaws it is a persistent source of aggravation, but perhaps it speaks differently to Herman Basket's sister. Her ultimate choice for a mate has been read as a triumph for the artist over the warrior.

Individual or Group: 
Individual
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