“Last of the Mohicans”
Cherokee-Shaw
Last of the Cherokee-Shawnee Indians
I cannot get
my visitors from Korea to the main website of our people to understand that,
although each fictional character in the fictional “Last of the Mohicans” are
real people, each is acting the part and only acting!
Daniel
Day Lewis did not hunt or kill a single Mohiigan Indian!
Sir
Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis is an English actor who holds both British and
Irish citizenship.
Born and raised in
London
and is not a Native American!
Sachem
Unkac (Uncas) did not die from any Indians!
Sachem
Unkas lived a good healthy life and walked the crossing with the ancestor!
Russell
Charles Means,
I am proud to call one of his friend,
was an Oglala Lakota!
Eric Schweig
is an Inuit
and
Ojibwe/Anishinaabe Indigenous
Canadian actor!
The capture and
rescue of Jemima Boone and the Callaway girls is a famous incident in the colonial history of Kentucky.
They were
captured by a Cherokee-Shawnee raiding party and rescued by Daniel Boone and his
party, celebrated for their success.
The incident
was portrayed in 19th-century literature and paintings:
Created a
fictionalized version of the episode in his novel
The incident
was the subject of a painting entitled
The Abduction of Boone's Daughter by the Indians (c.
1855)
by
Abduction of Boone's Daughter, 1855-56,
detail, Amon
Carter Museum of American Art
He is known
for an early painting of a colonial incident:
his The Abduction of Boone's Daughter by the Indians
(1855-1856), a depiction of the 1776 capture near Boonesborough,
Kentucky of Jemima
Boone and two other girls by a Cherokee-Shawnee raiding party.
A special
(Thank-you
to Donna
for pointing this out to me yesterday
