Jay Silverheels episode of ABC's "The Brady Bunch", as a Native American who befriends the Bradys in the Grand Canyon, and in an episode of the short-lived "Dusty's Trail", starring Bob Denver of "Gilligan's Island". In the early 1960s, Silverheels supported the Indian Actors Workshop, where Native American actors refined their skills in Echo Park, Los Angeles. Today the workshop is firmly established. Jay Silverheels raised, bred and raced Standardbred horses in his spare time. Once, when asked about possibly running Tonto's paint horse Scout in a race, Jay laughed off the idea: "Heck, "I" can outrun Scout!" Married in 1945, Silverheels
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