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
John Jay Osborn Jr. John Jay Osborn Jr. John Jay Osborn Jr. (born August 5, 1945) is an American author, lawyer and legal academic. He is best known for his bestselling novel, "The Paper Chase", a fictional account of one Harvard Law School student's battles with the imperious Professor Charles Kingsfield. The book was made into a 1973 film starring John Houseman and Timothy Bottoms. Houseman won an Oscar for his performance as contracts professor Kingsfield. "The Paper Chase" also became a television series, and Osborn wrote several of the scripts. Osborn's third novel, "The Associates", was adapted into a short-lived television series starring