Unnamed Indians in Mississippi

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Submitted by grdenton@memphis.edu on Mon, 2015-06-01 21:57
Text: 
"Delta Autumn"
Character Key: 
Unnamed Mississippi Indians 1
Display Name: 
Unnamed Indians in Mississippi
Sort Name: 
Unnamed Indians in Mississippi
Race: 
Indian
Gender: 
Multi Gender Group
Class: 
Indian Tribal Member
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Dead
First Mentioned: 
Road to the Delta in "Delta Autumn" (Location)
Other Texts: 
Go Down, Moses
Biography: 

One Indian, Sam Fathers, is mentioned by name in "Delta Autumn." But the text also includes a brief mention of the Indians who once inhabited Mississippi. As the "successors" of the aboriginal inhabitants, they turned the aboriginals' raised refuges from the water into burial mounds, which suggests their inevitable historical fate: all that is left of these Indians in the present are their words as the names of "the little towns" along the river (271).

Individual or Group: 
Group
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