Jay Silverheels, the actor who played Tonto, was a Mohawk. Tonto most definitely was not.
ETA: wait a sec. Where in the article does Dave Barry Tonto was a Mohawk?
Silverheels played a Seminole Indian named John Osceola in Key Largo.
Three that we know of, but those were just the ones that went to full term.
Young Bruce Dern would show up in the old TV westerns from time to time and was often an ass hole. Young Dennis Hopper shows up too but he’s usually a spineless psychopath. The true silver bullet of truth is that the name Tonto was taken from the Tonto National Forest in Arizona.
He also played an Aztec in Captain from Castile (1947), opposite Tyrone Power and Cesar Romero.
In John Wayne’s The Cowboys, it was Dern who was a spineless psychopath.
IIRC, Dern was also psychotic in the pilot The Long Hunt of April Savage, created and written by Sam Rolfe (Have Gun, Will Travel), produced by Gene Roddenberry, and starring Robert “Gary Seven” Lansing. Improvising, Dern picked up a chicken and stroked it as he carried it around with him. Using the chicken as a prop made him look completely deranged.
Can’t we forgive him because he was hot? 
Well, there is that slash fan fic.
Dammit, I was going to post that.
Thanks a lot, Kimo Sabe!
You’d be hard pressed to find a bigger asshole than Dern’s bad guy in The Cowboys.
The Mavericks - all of them - were assholes. They cheated and conned their way through every episode, they were cowards, and the only reason they werent in prison was because the local sherriffs cut a deal with them after they helped catch the worse assholes.
They usually conned someone who had cheated or threatened them.
I’ve been listening to bits of “Fort Laramie” episodes (OK, it’s classic radio, not TV), and I’m having trouble accepting Raymond Burr as a sympathetic type (he plays a U.S. cavalry captain, with snooty overtones).
I keep getting a mental image of him riding a horse while wearing a custom tailored suit.
A wheelchair saddle, being chased by Godzilla.
Those two guys who were trying to steal Deputy Droopy’s gold were kind of jerks.
Steve McQueen in Wanted: Dead or Alive is another one of those “He’s a jerk except when he isn’t.” types.
He was a bounty hunter who did bounty hunter stuff.* But he usually turned the reward money over to the bad guy’s victims or other needy folk.
- That needs to be said in a Jules Winnfield kind of voice.
Josh Randall was a character in an episode of Trackdown.
Obviously a West Point graduate. 
I would interpret more as a corruption of “quien no sabe”, “He [who] doesn’t know”. Works well as a counterpart to Tonto.
He was like Josie Wales - he just wanted to be left alone. And, like Lone Watie said to Josie, “I’ve noticed when you get to disliking folks they aint around long neither.”
Not sure where I read it: Lucas McCain killed more men than cholera.
He also told Josie, “We are one of the civilized tribes. That means we are easy to sneak up on.”