Chingachgook Chingachgook Chingachgook is a fictional character in four of James Fenimore Cooper's five Leatherstocking Tales, including "The Last of the Mohicans". Chingachgook was a lone Mohican chief and companion of the series' hero, Natty Bumppo. In "The Deerslayer", Chingachgook married Wah-ta-Wah, who bore him a son named Uncas, but died while she was still young. Uncas, who was at his birth "last of the Mohicans", grew to manhood but was killed in a battle with the Huron warrior Magua. Chingachgook died as an old man in the novel "The Pioneers", which makes him the actual "last of the Mohicans," having
Cumandá (novel) Cumandá (novel) Cumandá o Un drama entre salvajes (English: "Cumanda or A Drama Between Savages") is a classic Ecuadorian novel by Juan León Mera. The novel was written in 1877. Juan León Mera sent the novel from Ambato, Ecuador to the Director of the Royal Spanish Academy on March 10, 1877. He wanted the novel to be presented to the Academy as a show of gratitude for recently being appointed a member. In the letter he pointed out that although writers such as François-René de Chateaubriand and James Fenimore Cooper had already written novels about savages in America, his was