![]() ![]() These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. In this way, Cooper presents a human frontier in addition to a geographical one, a varied microcosm that reflects a uniquely American cross-cultural sensibility. These concerns include the sustainability of tribes’ traditional livelihoods, the nature of colonial power, and the complexities of cultural and racial diversity. However, on a deeper level, and perhaps most importantly, Cooper’s Indians play an integral role in various meditations on American possibility, specifically the human concerns that accompany European Americans’ growing occupation of North America. These American Indian characters serve many purposes in Cooper’s texts, from exemplifying the wilderness, to providing dramatic images of battle and adventure, to offering a non-Christian mystical flavor to an otherwise Anglo perspective. Born in New Jersey in 1789, in an America newly independent from British control, Cooper found America’s indigenous peoples themselves to be his source material for this tradition. In Cooper’s mind, American writers were too often overshadowed by European literary models, and much of his aim in composing his uniquely American stories was to render a national intellectual tradition that would be somehow indigenous. ![]() During his time, James Fenimore Cooper achieved the height of literary fame for his creation of the Leatherstocking series as well as numerous other publications. ![]()
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