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| Character | Description |
|---|---|
| Abel | Abel is a young Native American man who served in the United States military during World War II. He has just returned home to the reservation. Read More |
| Ben Benally | Ben is a Native American living in Los Angeles who offers Abel a place to stay and tries to befriend him, even when Abel is drunk and belligerent. Read More |
| Francisco | Francisco is Abel's grandfather. He lives on the reservation in New Mexico. Read More |
| Father Olguin | Father Olguin is both a part of the reservation community and separate from it. He does not understand the people, even though he lives among them. Read More |
| Angela St. John | Angela is a pregnant white woman who comes to New Mexico alone. She hires Abel to chop firewood and later has relations with him. Read More |
| John Big Bluff Tosamah | Reverend John Big Bluff Tosamah lives in Los Angeles and preaches to the community. He has issues with Abel, whom he believes to be a "longhair" and unable to assimilate. Read More |
| Bonifacío | Bonifacío is Father Olguin's altar boy. |
| Carlozini | Carlozini is an old woman who lives in the apartment downstairs from Ben Benally's apartment. |
| Carrie | Carrie is Milly's four-year-old daughter, who was stricken with a fever and died. |
| Cristóbal Cruz | Cruz is John Big Bluff Tosamah's friend and assistant. His personality is seen through other people's perspectives and in general, he seems to support Tosamah. |
| Daniels | Daniels is the foreman at the Los Angeles factory where Ben Benally and Abel work. |
| Henry | Henry is the owner of The Silver Dollar, a bar in Los Angeles Ben Benally and Abel frequent. |
| Fat Josie | Fat Josie was a large-figured Native American woman who healed Abel after he was injured in childhood. |
| Napoleon Kills-in-the-Timber | Napoleon Kills-in-the-Timber was a participant, and the drummer, in the peyote ceremony. |
| Mariano | Mariano is the boy Francisco outraces in the episode he remembers from when he was very young. |
| Martinez | Martinez is a corrupt officer in Los Angeles. He brutally assaults Abel. |
| Milly | Milly is a social worker in Los Angeles and has a brief relationship with Abel. Previously, she was married; her daughter died. |
| Fray Nicolás | Fray Nicolás is Father Olguin's predecessor. He is dead at the time of the story and only known to the reader or primary characters via his journal. |
| Patiestewa | Patiestewa is an old man who is head of the Eagle Watchers Society. |
| Peter | Peter is Angela St. John's son. |
| Juan Reyes | Juan Reyes Fragua is the albino who beats a rooster to death on Abel and whom Abel murders. |
| Mercedes Tenorio | Mercedes Tenorio is a woman who wears turtle shells and starts a stomp dance. |
| Vidal | Vidal was Abel's brother. He died during Abel's childhood. |
| Henry Yellowbull | Henry Yellowbull was a participant in the peyote ceremony. |
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