Melon Patch on Indian Plantation (Location Key)

This is the melon patch on the Choctaw plantation in "Red Leaves" where Issetibbeha first sees the woman who will be Moketubbe's mother working there. Perhaps Faulkner included this example of 'field work' to reinforce the story's implicit parallel between Doom's "plantation" (313) and the slave plantations of the white settlers, but in fact the Choctaw people farmed land in Mississippi long before they had any contact with whites.