Losing your touch, LC. Usually you are more subtle in your misconstruals.You have an interesting view of history. It may be right. I have no idea. It is not consistent with biographies of the Burlington men who first used the name, but biographies can be mistaken.
The "last of the Mohicans does not refer to Uncas. It refers to Chingachkook (sorry for the spelling). Uncas would have been the last, but he assumed room temperature while his father was still alive, hence Dad was the last of the tribe.
Nathaniel Bumppo was, indeed, a white guy. Iowa sports fans who claim him as their role model and hero should realize they are lauding an illiterate, unwashed man who participated in mass slaughter of native Americans based on their tribal affiliation. No big deal.
First, whether the overview I laid out is "interesting" it is the standard commonplace view of historians who are focused on the period from the War of 1812 to the outset of the Civil War. I hesitate to assume that mutual defense of one newspaperman for even those of a bitterly partisan era when truth was not taeken seriously is enough to push you to ludicrous notions about the political polemics of a century ago.
Secondly, the Mohicans are a creation of Cooper: he chose to have Chingachgook killed by the Huron villain in the ambush at the waterfalls when the girls were taken prisoner. Since Cooper subsequently had Uncas rescue them, he meant for his storyline to leave Uncas the Last of the Mohicans. But it is only story telling, and you certainly are free to create your own version.
Third, Bumppo is just a character in the Cooper trilogy, and as fictional as a Republicvan balanced budget.
But as Cooper creates him, there is NO suggestion ever that he is illiterate or unsanitary in his personal hygiene. More importantly, there IS NO mention anywhere that he "participated in mass slaughter of native Americans: Cooper has him only serving as a scout to colonial & English troops fighting the French army and its Huron mercenaries from Canada---and Bumppo/Hawkeye joins the combat only in defense after French & Huron ambush.
It would be sad if after all the years of fighting th good fight you were to fall to the Gazette's standard of accuracy.