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Ikkemotubbe: Also
known as Doom and David Callicoat. A legendary figure in the
early history of Yoknapatawpha County,
and as is the case with many legends, stories of him are somewhat
inconsistent. A Chickasaw Indian chief, he and his people owned the land
that later was owned by Thomas Sutpen
and Major de Spain. In his
youth, he became enamored with a beautiful Indian woman known only as Herman
Basket's sister; in
"A Courtship," he competed with David
Hogganbeck for the right to marry her, a competition which he eventually
won at "the Cave," but by
the time he returned home to claim his prize, she had already married Log-in-the-Creek.
Soon after, he ran away to New Orleans, returning seven years later with a
quadroon slave who was to be the mother of Sam
Fathers and with a gold snuff-box filled with a magical white powder. He
was known variably as "David
Callicoat" (in "A Justice")
and "Doom" — an anglicized verson of the French
"L'Homme" or "Du Homme" ("The Man") which he
had been dubbed in New Orleans by his patron, Chevalier
Soeur Blonde de Vitry, who returned with him to the area later known as
Yoknapatawpha County. In "Red Leaves,"
he was the father of Issetibbeha, though
elsewhere he is generally called the son of Issetibbeha's sister. In "A
Courtship," he became chieftain after Issetibbeha's son, Moketubbe,
abdicated his chieftainship when Moketubbe's son died within two days of his
return home from New Orleans. He appears also in The
Reivers and the "appendix"
to The Sound and the Fury, where he is called
"A dispossessed American king" who "granted out of his vast
lost domain a solid square mile of virgin North Mississippi dirt as truly
angled as the four corners of a cardtable" to Jason
Lycurgus Compson, the "grandson of a Scottish
refugee who had lost his own birthright by casting his lot with a king
who himself had been dispossessed."
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Ingraham:
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Ingrum:
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Ingrum, Willy:
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Inverness: A
small settlement near Frenchman's
Bend, where Dr. Peabody
had gone, according to Armstid in As
I Lay Dying.
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Isham:
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Isom: (1903- )
The son of Elnora who did odd jobs
around the house in Sartoris/Flags
in the Dust and "There Was a
Queen." He appears also in Sanctuary
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Issetibbeha: A
Chickasaw chief. In general, he was
the uncle of Ikkemotubbe, though in "Red
Leaves," he was Ikkemotubbe's son. The map
of Yoknapatawpha County published
in Absalom, Absalom! refers to the
northwestern corner of the county — owned by Thomas
Sutpen — as "Issetibbeha's Chickasaw Grant." He appears in Go
Down, Moses, Requiem for a Nun, The
Town, and The Reivers, and in the
short stories "Red Leaves" and
"A Courtship."
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[Issetibbeha's
body servant]: A slave owned by Issetibbeha
in "Red Leaves." According to
tradition, when a chief died, his personal body servant was killed and
buried with him; to escape such a fate, Issetibbeha's servant fled and was
hunted by Moketubbe.
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