Susan Cooper and Native Activism

In her book Spirituality, Cooper is interested in "In her young adulthood and her museum's career, she focuses on" activities of the earth ", in particular" focus on museum protests "(xv) He said. According to her, the Native American protest museum hopes the museum will be able to return items belonging to them and their ancestors, for example the Native American's request to return to the Alcatraz from the government has been rejected. )).

According to the author's eldest daughter Susan Fenimore Cooper, Cooper first came up with the idea of ​​this book when he visited Adirond Dax with British gentlemen in 1825. The party passed through Catskill, an area that Cooper already knows well, and what he wrote in his first novel "Natie: Pioneer". They moved to George Lake and Glens Waterfall. Impressed by the cave under the waterfall, the members of the party "This is a romantic scene," said Susan Cooper 14th Derby Earle Smith - Stanley. Mr. Cooper promised in Stanley, "There must be a book in the place where these caves should be, basically an Indian, then a romantic idea that appeared first in his heart."

Cooper is said to have once wrote a romantic history when visiting Catskill. Cooper put his story on the border in a limited space controversial at the edge of 'civilization'. We must sail with the help of the Native American Guide. Therefore, this book explores the beauty found in the wilderness border of the American island, for example in the quotation from Chapter 3: the sun's rays do not start so hard, and because there is a cooler steam hot spring and fountain The heat of the day is reduced The bed of trees rises and it is in the atmosphere. It was interrupted by a still whisper of silence, a whispering of a person, sometimes a lazy woodpecker, some gaudy Jay's discord, representing the drowsy tranquility of the American landscape of July, It is full. Or from a dull roar of distant waterfall, swelling of the ear

In 1850, with the help of her famous father, James Fenimore Cooper, Susan Fenimore Cooper, one year announced the natural history, "rural time" of Lake Osego in New York State. I mentioned Susan Fenimore Cooper in the history of literature, more precisely the name of my father to position her book in understanding the history of literature. If the history of literature is faithful to the development and reaction of past literature, the name of Susan Fenimore Cooper is familiar to all American literary researchers of the 19th century. Her books are very popular both in the US and abroad, and six prints were done by 1854, Thoreau's Walden's publication year. It was reissued in rural era, it was re-published in 1868, it was reprinted again in 1876, it was subsequently reprinted in 1998, and it was reissued in 1887. However, many of the contemporaries knew her name, but only the father of most scholars in the 1990s knew.