Ikkemotubbe

Ikkemotubbe is a Chickasaw Indian chief (known among the People as "The Man") who reached that position by poisoning and intimidating the male heirs to it. For generations, the Indians lived on the land that Ikkemotubbe would sell to Thomas Sutpen. As a young man, during a trip to New Orleans, he made the acquaintance of someone "calling himself the Chevalier Soeur-Blonde de Vitry," who in turn began calling him "Du Homme," literally "of the man" in French (though Faulkner may have meant "the man"). This title became anglicized as"Doom." Ikkemotubbe is the biological father of Sam Fathers, whom he sold along with Sam's mother to Carothers McCaslin.