ATQ (The American Transcendental Quarterly), March 1st, 2002
In Notions of the Americans: Picked up by a Travelling Bachelor (1828), James Fenimore Cooper's Belgian Bachelor applauds the American federal government's new plan for "bring[ing] the Indians within the pale of civilization": removal of eastern tribes to territory west of the Mississippi (489). Once the native peoples of America's eastern states are relocated in western territory, the Bachelor suggests, "a nucleus will be created, around which all the savages of the west ... can rally" (490). That is, the noble western savages and the degraded and decreasing eastern Indians will form a mutual...
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