What is the main conflict in the last of the Mohicans?

[purplegoose777]

In The Last of the Mohicans, the obvious conflict is between the French and the English over control of North America and, the more basic conflict, between the white man and the Indian.

[yellowduck771]

the French and Indian War

Also, what is the main theme of the last of the Mohicans? The Last of the Mohicans deals with the theme of love and friendship of two different races. The interracial love of Cora and Uncas are doomed at last. They could not unite because they belong to two different races: one from white and another from Black.

In this manner, what is the plot of The Last of the Mohicans?

The last members of a dying Native American tribe, the Mohicans -- Uncas (Eric Schweig), his father Chingachgook (Russell Means), and his adopted half-white brother Hawkeye (Daniel Day-Lewis) -- live in peace alongside British colonists. But when the daughters (Madeleine Stowe, Jodhi May) 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.

Is the last of the Mohicans based on a true story?

Last of the Mohicans--The Facts Behind the Story This film is loosely based on James Fenimore Coopers Leatherstocking Tales and concerns itself with events during the French and Indian War of 1757.