Issetibbeha

Submitted by jbc@ku.edu on Thu, 2017-11-30 15:09
Text: 
The Town
Character Key: 
Issetibbeha
Display Name: 
Issetibbeha
Sort Name: 
Issetibbeha
Race: 
Indian
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Indian Chief
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Dead
Family: 
Issetibbeha|Ikkemotubbe
Family (new): 
IkkemotubbesInT
First Mentioned: 
Big Bottom in The Town (Location)
Other Texts: 
"A Courtship"
"A Name for the City"
"Red Leaves"
"The Old People"
Go Down, Moses
Requiem for a Nun
The Reivers
Biography: 

Issetibbeha was the Chickasaw chief when the first white settlers came to Yoknapatawpha. The "old mounds in the low creek bottoms about the county" were "usurped and dispossessed by the white settlers" (321).

Individual or Group: 
Individual
Character changes class in this text: 

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