American Literature
On the one hand, Cooper saw
acculturation as ultimately desirable and encouraged it in his fiction, but he revealed the distinct limits to its potential on the other, because he was
not certain whether a twoway acculturation would ever be accomplished and work out well for both cultures. While exploring the multilevel cultural
clashes between the European settlers and the Native Americans, Cooper creates some acculturated natives and whites, who enter a middle
ground between the conflicting cultures and, while retaining their own cultural identities, appropriate the best elements of each other's culture.
The Song of Hiawatha is an 1855 epic poem, in trochaic tetrameter, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, featuring an Indian hero. It is loosely based
on the legends and ethnography of the Ojibwe (Chippewa, Anishinaabeg) and other Native American peoples as contained in Algic Researches
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