Aluschaskuna (Location Key)

Unlike the other towns mentioned alongside it in "Delta Autumn" and Go Down, Moses - Tillatoba, Homochitto and Yazoo (271, 325) - the hamlet of "Aluschaskuna" was invented by Faulkner, though he probably was thinking of a real Delta town like Arcona when he did so - i.e. a small town with a majority black population, an economy dependent on the cotton crop, and an existence dependent on the rise and fall of the Mississippi River. It is "the last little Indian-named town" (271, 325) on the road to the hunting camp. The "town" is probably a short row of commercial buildings along the road that runs past it, and the local school where the young woman who is Boyd's unnamed lover in "Delta Autumn" and Roth's mistress and relative in the novel teaches would have been what the Jim Crow South called a 'Negro' or a 'colored school.'