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
USS Fenimore Cooper (1853) passages between Batavia and Singapore and from Java northward to the South China Sea until June 1854, when she rejoined the flagship at Hong Kong. Through that summer, the expedition cruised the coast of China, joining the East India Squadron in protecting American interests. Returning to its surveys in September 1854, the squadron sailed northward to Petropavlovsk, where the ships separated. "Vincennes" penetrated the Arctic, while "Fenimore Cooper" searched the Aleutians unsuccessfully for information concerning the fate of the men of the whaler "Monongahela", missing since 1853. Returning to the United States, "Fenimore Cooper" called at Sitka, Alaska, then Russian