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 Simpson (actor) in the television film "The Suspicions of Mr Whicher" for ITV. In 2011, he appeared in "The National Anthem", an episode of the anthology series "Black Mirror". On 13 April 2012, he appeared as Stretch in the sitcom "Not Going Out" and appeared in the ITV series "Mrs Biggs" as one of the great train robbers Bruce Reynolds. Jay Simpson (actor) Jay Simpson (born 1967) is a prolific English film, television and stage actor. Simpson is perhaps best known in television for portraying cockney desk sergeant Ian 'Brookie' Brooke in "Foyle's War", he has also appeared on television in "Recovery"