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
The Pioneers (novel) displaced by settlers. Natty vanishes into the sunset. "The Pioneers" was the first novel of James Fenimore Cooper's "Leatherstocking Tales" series, featuring the character Natty Bumppo, a resourceful white American living in the woods. The story focuses on the development of a "wilderness" area (as classified by European Americans) as a settled European-American community with refinements. The story takes place in the fictional town of Тempleton, which is said to be modeled after Cooperstown, New York, founded by Cooper's father after the Revolutionary War. Naturalist ideas: Although not classified as a naturalist novel, Cooper depicts many naturalist based ideas in