Uncas: First of the Mohegans

by Michael Leroy Oberg

Book Overview

Many know the name Uncas only from James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans, but the historical Uncas flourished as an important leader of the Mohegan people in seventeenth-century Connecticut. In Uncas: First of the Mohegans, Michael Leroy Oberg integrates the life story of an important Native American sachem into the broader story of European settlement in America. The arrival of the English in Connecticut in the 1630s upset the established...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801438772
• ISBN13: 9780801438776
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher