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
P. S. Harrison Reports" acknowledged not to have been written by Harrison. The screenplay, adapted from the Novel by James Fenimore Cooper, was co-written by Harrison and producer E.B. Derr. It is the only known production credit for Harrison, and the only writing credit of Derr, who produced several dozen movies from 1930 to 1943 (and none afterward). That movie's review by "Variety" opined, "Harrison draws a complete blank as a producer-scenarist." P. S. Harrison P.S. Harrison (March 23, 1880 — 22 October 1966) , known popularly as Pete Harrison, founded the motion picture trade journal, "Harrison's Reports", which was published weekly from