According to the "Appendix" to The Sound and the Fury, some of "Ikkemotubbe's descendants and people" remain in Mississippi after the Chickasaws have been 'removed' as a group to Oklahoma; they live on farms that "they too called plantations" (328), where some of them owned slaves. The text gives no cues about where these places might have been, or how many of them there were, but does clearly suggest that the farms, the plantations and the Indians who owned them all disappeared "at last" - presumably some time after the Civil War (329).
Submitted by ekp23@cornell.edu on Wed, 2018-05-23 11:17
"Ikkemotubbe's descendants and people" - the tribe of Chickasaw Indians that originally lived in Yoknapatawpha - are "gone" after being 'removed' by the U.S. government (328), but the descendants of the Indians who married Negroes remain, though the "wild blood" on their Indian ancestry appears "only occasionally in the noseshape of a Negro on a cottonwagon" (329).
Submitted by ekp23@cornell.edu on Wed, 2018-05-23 11:06
The descendants of Ikkemotubbe's Chickasaws who remain after the Removal eventually disappear too, but that does not mean that there are no living men or women with Chickasaw blood. The narrative indicates that those who still carry Chickasaw blood are "living not as warriors and hunters but as white men - as shiftless farmers or, here and there, the masters of what they too called plantations" (328). Land and slave ownership facilitates the Chickasaw descendants' pretensions to grandeur - and assumes a white identity.
