The goal of the thesis is to compare two works Hobomok by L.M. Child and Hope Leslie by C.M. Sedgwick and to find their similarities and differences. It describes the historical background at the beginning of the nineteenth century and the conflict between white settlers and Indians. It explains the main terms and connections between the coception of white supremacy connected with Puritanism and matriarchal society influenced by nature primitivism The core of the study analyses problems of interracial relationships from the point of the conflict of different cultures and the position of Indians and women in major society. The work tries todepict female witchcraft in contradiction to male Puritan ideology. It outlines literary connections of works by L.M. Child and C.M. Sedgwick and summarizes the significance of works Hobomok and Hope Leslie in their time from the view of woman´s position in the society of the beginning of the nineteenth century.