Unnamed Chickasaw Descendants in Mississippi(1)

Submitted by ekp23@cornell.edu on Wed, 2018-05-23 11:06
Text: 
"Appendix: Compson"
Character Key: 
Unnamed Chickasaw Descendants in Mississippi 1
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Unnamed Chickasaw Descendants in Mississippi(1)
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Unnamed Chickasaw Descendants in Mississippi(1)
Race: 
MixedIndianWhite
Gender: 
Multi Gender Group
Class: 
Lower Class
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Dead
Occupation: 
Farming
First Mentioned: 
Chickasaw Farms and Plantations in Appendix in "Appendix: Compson" (Location)
Biography: 

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.

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Group
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