Jess Nevins wrote:
Bird wrote it as a response to what he saw as the radically
pro-native message of Cooper's fiction.
*********** Thanks for the heads-up on Bird. I'm not familiar
with him. And yes, I'd agree with Bird that Last of the
Mohicans was pro-native. With the classic "as long as your
daughter doesn't marry one" disclaimer. Cooper wrote at a
time when sympathy for the Indians was on the rise.
Relatively speaking, of course.
A little before the War of 1812 Andrew Jackson had fairly
thoroughly settled the score on some Indian massacres in the
south, and soon afterwards the policy of moving the Indians
west of the Mississippi was initiated, the infamous Trail of
Tears.
miker
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