Word: chingachgook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...true story of Hannah Duston, a New England lady who in 1697 axed to death ten sleeping Indians who had the misfortune to capture her. Third is "The Myth of the Good Companions in the Wilderness," the friendship of White Man and Red, as portrayed by Natty Bumppo and Chingachgook in The Leatherstocking Tales. Last, there is "The Myth of the Runaway Male," the conflict between White Man and White Woman, as waged between Rip Van Winkle and his shrewish wife...
...Uncle Tom." Hannah Duston is not the heroic protector of white womanhood and the family but the great castrating mother of all men-a Mary Worth in linsey-woolsey. The tale of Rip Van Winkle is really about booze as a weapon against women. Only Natty Bumppo and Chingachgook make it through Fiedler's gauntlet without lumps. They constitute, he says, "the image of the runaway from home and civilization whom we long...