Leflore

Submitted by sfr on Mon, 2019-01-07 15:19
Text: 
Requiem for a Nun
Character Key: 
Leflore
Display Name: 
Leflore
Sort Name: 
Leflore
Parent: 
Le Fleur
AKA: 
Greenwood Leflore
Race: 
MixedIndianWhite
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Indian Chief
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Alive
First Mentioned: 
Jackson, Mississippi in Requiem for a Nun (Location)
Date of Birth: 
Tuesday, June 3, 1800
Origin: 
Mississippi
Cause of Death: 
Old Age
Biography: 

Greenwood Leflore (or LeFlore, the more historically accurate name) was the son of Rebecca Cravatt, the daughter of a Choctaw chief, and Louis LeFleur, a French Canadian fur trader. He was educated by white Americans in Nashville. Elected "first [or principal] chief of the Choctaw nation" in 1830 (84), he signed the treaty ceding the tribe's lands to the U.S., but when most of the tribe 'removed' west of the Mississippi River, he remained in Mississippi, where he became a large slave-owner and planter and served several terms in the state legislature. Although the novel's narrator says he named his plantation "in honor of a French king's mistress" (85), the name he actually gave it - "Malmaison" - pays tribute to a French emperor's wife; that was the name of the residence of the Empress Josephine, wife of Napoleon.

Ontological Status: 
Historical/Real
Individual or Group: 
Individual
Character changes class in this text: 
Date of Death: 
Thursday, August 31, 1865

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