Coopers Chingachgook
The Death of Chingachgook as the Apogee of the tragedy of the Indian
Nation in Cooper^s The Pioneers
The Pioneers, written by James Fenimore Cooper in 1823 opens the
popular series of books about the adventures of an inhabitant of the
New England forests Natty Bampo ^ a white man, a scout, and a hunter.
However, the novelist does not merely narrate the life of Natty, his
main aim is to present the whole situation on the Eastern Coast of
America in the seventeenth century. In The Pioneers, in particular,
Cooper writes about the new settlers in America, about their conquest
of the lands, and about the tragic extinction of the Indian people,
who had been proud owners of the lands of America. One of the most
important moments in this book, and even in the whole cycle, is the
scene of the death of Natty Bampo^s best friend Chingachgook, the last
representative of the Indian tribe of Mohicans. In this scene the
author presents his most important ideas about the vices of the new
settlers, hypocrisy of Christianity, and the tragedy of the native
inhabitants of the American lands. C! ooper actually makes the death
of the Mohican sound as a final chord in the calamitous history of the
Indian people, who under the onslaught of European civilization are
doomed to disappear. He makes the dying Indian chief a symbol for his
perishing nation, presenting him at the last minutes of his life in his
national costume and believing in the Indian morals and gods. Moreover,
by misspelling his name on the gravestone, Cooper redoubles the tragic
implication that after the death of Chingachgook his culture is
forgotten and lost, and a meaningful Indian name loses its importance
for the white people who come to live in the formally Indian forests.
Towards the end of The Pioneers the tragic story about the
Indians who were expelled from their lands by the white
Europeans, reaches its apogee. The scene of the Chingachgook^s
dying is full of sadness, pain, and hopelessness. In a very
meaningful way Cooper presents his Indian hero on the threshold
of death, sitting "on a trunk of a fallen oak" (p.381). Thus he
hints at the identity between the old chief and the tree,
implying that once young and strong they both are now old and
lifeless. Moreover, as the fallen tree is now disconnected from
the company of the strong young forest mates, thus also
Chingachgook with his "tawny visage" (p.381) is lonely among
the liveliness of the newly established colonies. So Cooper
writes that in place of the once virgin forests where the
3. Chapter 1, page 5, #3: “Moving through the soaked, coarse grass I began to examine each one closely, and finally identified the tree I was looking for by means of certain small scars rising along its trunk, and by a limb extending over the river, and another thinner limb growing near it.
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