Unnamed Chickasaws 5

Submitted by sfr on Sun, 2019-08-04 07:42
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891
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Unnamed Chickasaws 5
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Unnamed Chickasaws 5
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
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As Lucas Beauchamp notes in Go Down, Moses, the land that would have been Ike's McCaslin's inheritance was originally acquired from "the Indians back in the old time" (36). In "The Old People" the Indians are specifically identified as Chickasaws. Sam Fathers, himself half-Chickasaw and the son of a chief, refers to the tribe as "the People" (158).

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