nor civilization entirely and can go between both, though he is predisposed toward the former.

Hawkeye is an expert marksman. He can survive in the wilderness alone and is able to hunt and cook for himself. He can track both animals and people.

While Hawkeye can work with other people, he is at heart a loner. He never shows any romantic or sexual interest in women, so it can be assumed he does not plan on raising a family like most people in the so-called civilized world do.

When it comes to relations with the Native Americans, Hawkeye is complicated. He respects certain native traditions, such as preferring oral to written knowledge, and yet he insists that natives and white people cannot ever intermix or live together. When Cora and Uncas die and Munro claims that one day they shall all meet again as equals in heaven in spite of racial differences, Hawkeyes sneers at this:

"To tell them this," he said, "would be to tell them that the snows come not in the winter, or that the sun shines fiercest when the trees are stripped of their leaves."

So even though Hawkeye is different from the other European characters, separating himself from certain traditions of white culture, he still holds certain racist ideals which link him very firmly to them.