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Many Americans, that lived in the nineteenth century held various different stereotypes of Native Americans. Some may think of Native Americans living in the forest among animals, shooting off bows and arrows, and having pow wows. They where considered to be uncivilized monsters, that had only one goal, to kill the white man. While they did hold pow wows and different ceremonies, and the Native Americans did kill many Europeans this is not the whole truth nor very close to it. Fredrick Jackson Turner and Sarah Deutsch give good descriptions and thorough background information on Native Americans in Western history. When comparing their essays to James Fenimore Cooper?s novel, ?The Last of the Mohicans,? where we can get a better idea of the Indian?s point of view. One can see many similarities between the opinions of Turner and Deutsch and the image that Cooper portrays. There was many ideas and beliefs that these early Americas thought to be true, when in reality they where very wrong. Sarah Deutsch describes the sexual relations between the Native Americans, and in this description says that very often the women in the tribes would marry Anglos. Even though the situation is a bit reversed, this is also shown in the novel. The tw
o daughters of the General fall in love with the two Mohican boys. So it is here too that we can see the Indians did have interracial relationships and marriages. Whether it was the men or women, we do know that it happened. Deutsch also mentioned, "None participated fully in the Anglo mythology of the West" (98, Deutsch). Here she is saying that the Natives, among many other races, did not follow all the rules and ways of the white men. This is also shown in ?The Last of the Mohicans.? The Mohicans, like many Indians of that time, refused to follow the ways of the white men. This resistance destroyed many different cultures. The only way for any of the Indians to survive was to summit. This is mainly because they do not want their culture to be wiped out or extinct. There are only a few of their people left and they must try to keep them alive. The Mohicans have seen the destructive paths the white men follow and they realize they should do whatever has to be done to save what they have left. Many of the Native Americans in our history saw this as well. If they hadnšt there would probably not have been so many battles and massacres on the Indians. They had to continue to defend themselves while being outnumbered and overpowered by the white men. Eventually, they had to give in and follow their rules, but the Indians have not completely lost their culture or traditions, only by abiding these rules and regulations were the Indians able to retain some of there heritage. Many of the tribes are still thriving in many places and on various reservations today. The Battle at sitting bull was a perfect example of greed and selfishness where the Indians where crushed just for the gain of the Americans. Sarah Deutsch comments on this in her essay. While comparing the white manšs view to the Indians one can see the difference. To the White Man, the
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