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
Playing Indian identity into question," writes Deloria. "At the same time, however, wearing a mask also makes one self-conscious of a "real" 'me' underneath." The book is a reworking of Deloria's 1994 Yale doctoral dissertation. Deloria refers to David Roediger's "The Wages of Whiteness", a similar book about the construction of the white race in opposition to black slaves; his book has itself been compared to scholarly work on blackface and to the work of Richard White. Playing Indian Playing Indian is a 1998 book by Philip J. Deloria. In it, Deloria discusses the way in which white American men have adopted