Discuss Societal Relationships & Interactions in the Movie: Last of the Mohicans

Discuss societal relationships & interactions in the movie:

"Last of the Mohicans"

Many societies were involved in the movie "Last of the Mohicans." This movie is about two societies, France and Britain, going to war. But in the mist of the war there were three different societies. These included the Mohawk Indians and Mohican Indians, who are on the side of the British. But there were also the Huron Indians who were on the side of the French. Before the war, the Mohicans and the Mohawks worked together as teams to insure all their families were fed and all there needs were tended to. The Huron Indians were like a tribe of their own and did not like the Mohicans or the Mohawks. They fended for themselves and worked on their own.

I think societies adapt to what is around them. For example in this movie "Last of the Mohicans." The Indian's were not using guns to kill people or animals in the beginning, but when people like the French and British declare war and fight around the Indian Territories the indian's protect themselves and kill the others also taking their weapons. So they adapt teaching them selves how to shoot guns but also they keep their own invented weapons. The Mohawk and Mohican Indians adapted when they allied with the British. They said they would help them out, and how do they get repaid? The British tell the Indians that they are not aloud to leave the land or they will be hung.

The Indians in the movie invent their own games and play them with each other. The game that I am talking about is the game that they were playing in the beginning of the movie, looked sort of like a mix of Hockey and Lacrosse. The Indians don't live in an "involved" society so they invent their own games and own clothes they don't get their ideas from others they get them from each other. Back then Indians did not have the abilities to make money so they just borrowed or traded things to one another. Before the British and French intervened in the Indians lives all the Indians knew was things that their fathers taught them in past as well as what others had taught them. Then the British intervened and they learned so much more, adapting to the British and or French Culture.

I think the Indians would have been better off with out our society intervening in their culture.