James Fenimore Cooper is an American MAN. He embodies a superior white man untouched by civilization and self-dependent. He describes the Indians race as an inferior race and calls on them as dumb non sophisticated “idiots”. In the Deerslayer he practically dumbs their nature down to show how superior he and white men in general are to the “Red Man”. The one good thing about The Indians is the Red Gifts which is honesty, nobility, and boldness. Cooper prides himself on being part of nature and nature being part of God and we can see God as Beauty in nature. He understands humans as being one with God and nature that is why he uses a lot of imagery of the forests, lakes, canoes, and earthly things.

The saddest thing is to see how he depicts the “Injun’s”. He places them just above Irish peasants and in America those days the Irish were thought of as vermin. So, one notch above absolute filth. He talks about them as a primitive society and as needing the white man. But as we look at the stories we can draw closer and see that “the white man” and the “red man” have many similarities.