This is mainly because they do not want their culture to be wiped out or extinct. There are only a few of their people left and they must try to keep them alive. The Mohicans have seen the destructive paths the white men follow and they realize they should do whatever has to be done to save what they have left. Many of the Native Americans in our history saw this as well. If they hadnthere would probably not have been so many battles and massacres on the Indians. They had to continue to defend themselves while being outnumbered and overpowered by the white men. Eventually, they had to give in and follow their rules, but the Indians have not completely lost their culture or traditions, only by abiding these rules and regulations were the Indians able to retain some of there heritage. Many of the tribes are still thriving in many places and on various reservations today. The Battle at sitting bull was a perfect example of greed and selfishness where the Indians where crushed just for the gain of the Americans. Sarah Deutsch comments on this in her essay. While comparing the white manview to the Indians one can see the difference. To the White Man, the Indians were in the way of him getting the gold he desired. "To Sitting Bull, it resembled more a rampage of greed and selfishness, of exploitation and rigid hierarchies, whether based on race, sex or both" (98, Deutsch.) The white man and the armies could have cared less if they killed an entire Indian tribe. In fact, they probably would have celebrated. They were on a specific mission to get what they wanted and they would not let others get in the way of their victory and triumph. In The Last of the Mohicans, the General and his troops are fighting the Indians and think of them as savages that are inhuman and destroyed them unmercifully. They would take any action possible to get rid of these "savages" without even worrying about the hundreds of men on their side who are dying because of this ignorance and selfishness.
