Mahican track and casinos, private interests and other tribes opposed the deal. James Fenimore Cooper based his novel, "The Last of the Mohicans", on the Mahican tribe. His description includes some cultural aspects of the Mohegan, a different Algonquian tribe that lived in eastern Connecticut. Cooper set his novel in the Hudson Valley, Mahican land, but used some Mohegan names for his characters, such as Uncas. The novel has been adapted for the cinema more than a dozen times, the first time in 1920. Michael Mann directed a 1992 adaptation, which starred Daniel Day-Lewis as a Mohican-adopted white man. Mahican The
James S. Holmes in 1940, extracted the title of his famous novel "For Whom The Bell Tolls":<poem> 'No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. ' </poem> Many translations in magazines such as: James S. Holmes James Stratton Holmes (Collins, May 2, 1924 - Amsterdam, November 6, 1986) was a Dutch poet and translator. He was born in the United States, in Collins, Iowa,