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"It's nice to see The Revenant getting some attention during movie awards season. Although it takes quite a few liberties with the Hugh Glass story, it's a well-made film and a powerful depiction of the hardships and dangers endured by the nineteenth-century fur traders.
One of the things that struck me about the movie is the way its two main characters reflect contrasting frontier archetypes, set apart by their interactions with the West's original inhabitants. These archetypes appear and again over the course of the American frontier's history, from the colonial era through the late nineteenth century.
For some people, the frontier was a liminal realm where cultural and racial barriers broke down and where a degree of mutual accommodation and hybridity was possible. Moving and living among Indians, these traders, trappers, and missionaries straddled the border between the worlds in which they were born and the ones they inhabited. Examples of this type would include the coureurs de bois of New France, who sometimes too up residence among Indians, learned their languages, adopted their dress and customs, and married into their societies. Another would be Simon Girty, who assimilated into Indian culture and fought with Britain's Native allies in the American Revolution…"
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