Doctor Habersham's Son

The "motherless" Habersham boy is eight years old when he first arrives at the Mississippi settlement with his father (7). As a grown man, he becomes the government's local Indian agent and marries a Chickasaw woman whom the novel identifies first as Issetibbeha's granddaughter (7), then as Mohataha's (170). Although the circumstances are vague, it seems clear that he becomes an outspoken advocate for the tribe he marries into, resigning from his government position "in a letter of furious denunciation addressed to the President of the United States himself" - probably Andrew Jackson; afterward he moves to Oklahoma "with his wife's dispossessed people" (7).