Unnamed Chippeway Indians

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3142
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Unnamed Chippeway Indians
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Unnamed Chippeway Indians
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
No
Biography: 

In Requiem for a Nun, these are the eighteen Indians in the party led by La Salle on the voyage of discovery down the Mississippi. It seems likely that at least some of them, like the canoes they traveled in, are Chippewa (or as the narrator refers to them, "Chippeway," 81): the Chippewa were part of the Ojibwe language group that lived along and near the St. Lawrence River in Canada.