Unnamed Indians in Oklahoma
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Unnamed Indians in Oklahoma
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Unnamed Indians in Oklahoma
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
The Chickasaw were one of several tribes that were displaced by President Jackson's Indian Removal Act of 1830. In "Appendix Compson," Faulkner indicates the enduring consequences of that removal, referring to the Chickasaw people in Oklahoma as "the homeless descendants of the dispossessed" (326).