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
Jay Karnes Jay Karnes Jay Karnes (born June 27, 1963) is an American actor, best known for his role as LAPD detective Holland "Dutch" Wagenbach on the FX television series "The Shield". Karnes was born in Omaha, Nebraska. He attended the University of Kansas and was part of the class of 1989. In the mid-1990s Karnes was a company member with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, playing major roles in such plays as "Love's Labours Lost" and Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia". Karnes also starred in the films "The Joyriders" (1999) and "The Next Best Thing" (2000). From 2002 to 2008 Karnes played the role