Native Americans in popular culture media is the Lone Ranger's sidekick, Tonto, most famously portrayed by Native American actor Jay Silverheels. James Fenimore Cooper featured a character called "The Sagamore" in his novel "The Last of the Mohicans". Rick, the protagonist of Simon Spurrier's novel, "The Culled" (2006, book 1 of The Afterblight Chronicles), belongs to the Haudenosaunee people and is guided through crises by the sachem. Another character, named Hiawatha, saves Rick's life and advises him the Tadodaho have said Rick and Hiawatha are aligned. Throughout Sherman Alexie's poem, "How to Write the Great American Indian Novel" he states that all of the Indians
James Fenimore Cooper Ways of the Hour", authored in 1850. He turned again from pure fiction to the combination of art and controversy in which he had achieved distinction with the "Littlepage Manuscripts" (1845–1846). His next novel was "The Crater, or Vulcan's Peak" (1847), in which he attempted to introduce supernatural machinery. "Jack Tier" (1848) was a remaking of "The Red Rover", and "The Ways of the Hour" was his last completed novel. Cooper spent the last years of his life back in Cooperstown. He died on September 14, 1851, the day before his 62nd birthday. He was buried in the Christ Episcopal