Fenimore Cooper is known for everyone who were interested in Indians and their life in childhood. Almost everyone knows the name of Cooperâs favorite hero, wandering from novel to novel â Natanael, Bampo. The hero of âThe Last of the Mohicansâ is Hawkeye. The last members of a dying Native American tribe, the Mohicans â Uncas, his father Chingachgook, and his adopted half-white brother Hawkeye â live in peace alongside British colonists. But when the daughters of a British colonel are kidnapped by a traitorous scout, Hawkeye and Uncas must rescue them in the crossfire of a gruesome military conflict of which they wanted no part: the French and Indian War.