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
Uncas Miantonomo subsequently escaped from the Mohegan village where he was being held and jumped Yantic Falls in escape of the pursuing Mohegans. This site is also known as Indian Leap. Uncas' brother Wawequa, leading the pursuit, caught up to Miantonomo and struck him a fatal blow to the back of his head with a tomahawk. A monument stands near the site of Miantonomo's death. The exact location is unknown, since stones marking the original location of Miantonomo's grave were allegedly used by early settlers to construct a barn. Author James Fenimore Cooper portrayed a fictional Uncas as having made the