Unnamed Children of Pioneers and Indians
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Unnamed Children of Pioneers and Indians
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Unnamed Children of Pioneers and Indians
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MixedIndianWhite
Gender:
Multi Gender Group
Class:
MultiClass Group
Rank:
Peripheral
Vitality:
Alive
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According to the novel's history of the place that became Jackson, "the Anglo-Saxon" pioneer not only fought the Indians he found in the territory; he also fathered children on some of them: "scattering his ebullient seed in a hundred dusky bellies through a thousand miles of wilderness" (81-82). "Dusky bellies" is ambiguous, but almost certainly refers to Indian women. And while miscegenation between black and white in Faulkner's world made one a 'Negro' and socially inferior, it was common for 'white' southerners to boast of a Native American ancestor on the family tree.
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