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 Ryan (actor) in the New Zealand comedy/drama series "Go Girls". In 2011, he joined the cast of the Australian comedy/drama series "Offspring". Also in 2011, Ryan guest starred on the American science fiction series "Terra Nova", playing a murderer. For this role, Ryan utilised an American accent. In 2012, Ryan was cast as the male lead in the CW's "Beauty & the Beast" pilot. The CW officially announced the series at the May 2012 Up Fronts in New York. Ryan and Dianna Fuemana had a daughter in 2013. Jay Ryan (actor) Jay Ryan (born August 29, 1981) is a New Zealand actor.