Unnamed Uncle of Doom

"The Man" - the chief of the Indian tribe before Doom - is not named in the story, but identified only as Doom's uncle, Doom's mother's brother, and "the hereditary owner of that land which belonged to the male side of the family" who rules the tribe (317-18). Along with his son, he dies mysteriously after Doom returns from his sojourn in New Orleans - presumably at Doom's hands, but that part of the story is left untold here. (Faulkner tells it in "A Justice" and elsewhere, though in the later accounts the character of Issetibbeha, Doom's son in this story, is the "uncle" and chief whom he kills.)