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Show 55 And of as is Cooper the Indian nation fond of detailing through following westward of Natty Bumppo, May, the the "beginning gradual and symbolical a-"symbolic idealist," as of the end" is move equally fond of detailing the fall of the Indian through Winnetou, who ts, with Old Shatterhand enae race. ,,8 Thus' both writers. lamenting are the demfse of the of Ch Ingachgoek in The as nar r aeer the , "swan song of. the red - fond of inserting once-powerful red nostalgic man. passages Says Natty Bumppo Deerslayer_ 'If 'he had his' rights, he would be· a' great chief;. but, t is, he is only a brave and just-minded De 1 aware of a fallen race belonging to a fallen people. Ah! Harry March, twould warm the heart within you to sit in .. as' ••• their. . lodges' of winter's night, and listen. to the ancient greatness and power of the a traditions of the Mohican. 19 Similarly Shatterhand 'If'he . die, Shatterhand . of and. an even his' who Le as like But, May sees an race European ruler, he would be greater prince of peace. Indian. CiEH, however, he will a dies 0 '10 Bumppo and his Indian companion, not are glorification. and son great general. As: the' offspring of a . a the> were says of Winntou: of really the so much a dirge potential as a that part of his. purpose in world that the Indian. represented by, p. as p. 18. writing of civilized the man as and claims Indian. is. to show Winnetou is Cooper (New York: Hereafter. Deerslayer. lOwinnetou, Indian nation. capable a doubting of attaining 115. 9James.Fenimore .1961), the Indian. and of his'wild and beatiful world-- in him great ·8., for Winnetou and I, 69. Washington Square Press, |
