ystem. It is the entire movement into the West and its colonization that the people of the East
             bring their values and way of life into new lands. Throughout the entire settlement of the West,
             it is the conflict of the difference between the East and West that reflect through the characters
             who are enduring the hardships of establishing a new civilization. As these people from the East
             try and compromise with the much different way of life in the West, they transcend over their
             negative qualities that derive from their Eastern culture and become people of a more "humane"
             nature. If they do not compromise, they will not survive the way of life in the West.
             In "Drums Along the Mohawk," Lana is depicted as the typical Eastern girl turned
             frontierswoman. In the beginning of the film, we see her and Gil just married at her estate in the
             East. It is here we see where she comes from. "The opening scene stresses the formality and
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