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The Last of the Mohicans

 James Fenimore Cooper
 

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1. There is reason in an Indian, though nature has made him with a red skin! . . . I am no scholar, and I care not who knows it; but judging from what I have seen, at deer chases and squirrel hunts, of the sparks below, I should think a rifle in the hands of their grandfathers was not so dangerous as a hickory bow and a good flint-head might be, if drawn with Indian judgment, and sent by an Indian eye.
 
 
2. I am not a prejudiced man, nor one who vaunts himself on his natural privileges, though the worst enemy I have on earth, and he is an Iroquois, daren't deny that I am genuine white.
 
 
3. A Mingo is a Mingo, and God having made him so, neither the Mohawks nor any other tribe can alter him.
 
 
4. The Hurons love their friends the Delawares. . . . Why should they not? They are colored by the same sun, and their just men will hunt in the same grounds after death. The redskins should be friends, and look with open eyes on the white men.
 
 
5. The pale-faces are masters of the earth, and the time of the red-men has not yet come again. My day has been too long.
 
 
 
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