Boon Hogganbeck's Grandmother

Submitted by tmtowner@utdall... on Thu, 2016-06-23 13:55
Text: 
Go Down, Moses
Character Key: 
Unnamed Grandmother of Boon Hogganbeck
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Boon Hogganbeck's Grandmother
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Unnamed Grandmother of Boon Hogganbeck
Race: 
Indian
Gender: 
Female
Class: 
Indian Tribal Member
Rank: 
Peripheral
Vitality: 
Dead
First Mentioned: 
Big Bottom in Go Down, Moses (Location)
Other Texts: 
"The Old People"
The Reivers
Biography: 

Boon’s grandmother was a "Chickasaw squaw" (215). This means that compared to Sam, who was "the son of [a] Chickasaw chief," the 'Indian blood' that runs in Boon's veins is "not chief's blood" (161). The grandmother never appears in the novel, and at times Boon even denies he has "one single drop of alien blood" in his veins at all (215).

Individual or Group: 
Individual
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