The People
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Character Key:
Display Name:
The People
Sort Name:
The People
Race:
Indian
Gender:
Multi Gender Group
Class:
Indian Tribal Member
Rank:
Minor
Vitality:
Alive
First Mentioned:
Biography:
In "A Justice," "the People" is the collective term for Doom's tribal members, and they are differentiated from "the black people" (351, 355). The People as a tribe are also often segregated by gender, as when "all the men sleep in the House" (350), or when on the way to the steamboat, the women walk while the men ride in wagons (351). In this early story the Indians are identified as Choctaws; later Faulkner will consistently refer to the Indians who lived in the land that became Yoknapatawpha as Chickasaws.
Individual or Group:
Group
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