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How was Natty Bumppo raised and educated?

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Jarvis, John Wesley: James Fenimore Cooper — James Fenimore Cooper *James Fenimore Cooper*, painting by John Wesley Jarvis, 1822; in the Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York.

Natty Bumppo, the iconic protagonist of James Fenimore Cooper’s The Leatherstocking Tales, was a white man who was raised by Delaware Indians. Regarding his formal education, he was instructed by members of a Moravian sect.1

This unique upbringing shaped him into a brave and honorable woodsman, hunter, and interpreter who maintained a lifelong friendship with the Mohican chief Chingachgook.1