Firekeeper's Daughter

Eighteen-year-old daughter of an Ojibwe father and a white mother, torn between the two communities on and off the Sault Ste. Marie reservation.

A new recruit on her half-brother's hockey team who Daunis falls for, before learning he is an undercover federal agent investigating the local meth trade.

Daunis's younger half-brother and captain of the Sault Ste. Marie Supes junior hockey team, sharing their late father but raised in a separate household.

Daunis's paternal aunt, who keeps her connected to Ojibwe tradition and community life after her father's death.

The grandmother and guardian of Daunis's best friend Lily, after Lily's own parents were no longer able to raise her.