Unnamed Chickasaws

Submitted by mdennis@ku.edu on Thu, 2018-10-04 16:15
Text: 
"A Name for the City"
Character Key: 
Unnamed Chickasaws 7
Display Name: 
Unnamed Chickasaws
Sort Name: 
Unnamed Chickasaws
Race: 
Indian
Gender: 
Multi Gender Group
Class: 
Indian Tribal Member
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Alive
First Mentioned: 
Oklahoma in "A Name for the City" (Location)
Biography: 

The Chickasaw were the tribe living in northern Mississippi when the white settlers began arriving. In their interactions with the story's white characters they are depicted as friendly. After "ceding" their lands to the newcomers (200), however, they will be 'removed' from the region by the Indian policy of President Jackson's administration - or, as the narrator puts it at the outset of the tale, these "dispossessed people" "emigrated to Oklahoma in the thirties" (202).

Note: 
CUT: Chickasaws are forced to follow the Trail of Tears in their exile to Oklahoma. Issetibbeha's granddaughter and the Habersham man she has married are among them.
Individual or Group: 
Group
Character changes class in this text: 

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