The Last of the Mohicans, a novel written by James Fenimore Cooper in
             1826, details the lives of French, English, and native Americans during the
             early American colonial period. Set in North America, the novel discusses
             the conflict among races and nationality: English battling against the
             French forces, and native Americans battling for their territory over the
             two colonizers (French and English). The novel, more than a work of
             literature, is also a historical account of the lives of native Americans,
             the positive and negative members of its race, and the complex situation
             they faced when they were "dispossessed" by the colonizers. History
             determines the events surrounding the novel to have happened during the
             French and Indian Wars, which lasted for seventy-five years (1698-1763).
             The historical period where the events in the novel take place is
             characterized by "[m]assacres and scalpings†traditional conceptions of
             honor yielded to the exigencies of the forests†British and French combat
             was no longer a source of national unity but a divisive conflict in which
             loyalties were compromised and cultural values repeatedly transgressed"
             Apart from being a period of native American displacement and
             colonial rule, the Mohicans also confronts the issue of "Puritan New
             England," where race and culture takes a secondary priority over the issue
             of religious differences. In the novel, Cooper also depicts conflict
             between native Americans and its colonizers, particularly the English,
             where the latter experiences conflict and disagreement with the "savage
             ways" of the former, due to their primitive and pagan-like form of worship.
             Cooper's Mohicans, in consideration with all the important events that
             occurred as discussed above, is an example of a series of "Leatherstocking
             Tales," which depicts life and society in early America, particularly the
             dynamic con...