Wyandotté (novel)

Wyandotté is a historical novel published by James Fenimore Cooper in 1843.

[1] The main character of the novel is an Indian, "Saucy Nick", also called Wyandotté ("Great Chief"), whose depictions violate stereotypes of Native Americans.

[2] Critic James H. Pickering described the novel as rejecting the more established histories of the New York/Canada border war during the Revolution.

[1] In part the novel represents Cooper's own knowledge of the regional oral history and affiliation with soldiers who had experienced the war.

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