Miko John Hughes (born February 22, 1986) is the 7th and current Chief of the Chickasaw Nation (officially the Chickasaw Republic). Hughes had originally started out as a child actor at the age of three in 1989, and continued for the next ten years in that position, most notably starring as a young autistic child alongside American superstar Bruce Willis in the critically acclaimed 1998 film Mercury Rising. However, as the son of the 6th and then-current Chickasaw Chief John Hughes, Miko was also first in the line of succession laid down in the 6th Amendment to the Chickasaw Constitution (1963), and as such, his father finally convinced him to leave acting and study law and politics in an effort to groom him for the position he would one day take. He mostly obeyed his father's wishes, begi