Joe Leaphorn: Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant; man with strong skills in tracking people.
Ed Pasquaanti: chief of the Zuni tribal police.
Ernesto Cata: young Zuni boy, 12 years old, follows both Catholic and Zuni practices
Cecil Bowlegs: George Bowlegs' younger brother, 11 years old.
George Bowlegs: young Navajo boy at the mainly Zuni school, 14 years old, friend of Cata and older brother of Cecil, considered strange as he wants to be a Zuni when he is a Navajo, but also a mystic, one who sought God. He skips school some days to hunt for food for his family.
Shorty Bowlegs: father of George and Cecil, serious alcoholic who does not provide well for his sons.
Susanne: a caring young woman, friend of George Bowlegs, living in a Hippie commune at the start of the novel, left school in the 10th grade, about 17 or 18 years old in the story.
Ted Isaacs: graduate student of anthropology, excavating Professor Reynold's Folsom sites.
Chester Reynolds: Professor of Anthropology and graduate advisor to Isaacs, an academic with a strong reputation and too much ambition.
Father Ingles: Franciscan priest at the Saint Anthony's Mission School which all three boys attended.
Halsey: leader of Jason's Fleece, the Hippie commune where Susanne lives when the story opens.
John O'Malley: FBI agent, whom Leaphorn considers to be typical of all FBI agents.
Baker: federal drug enforcement agent, or "narc".
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