Characters in The Only Good Indians

Main characters

• Lewis Clarke

  A Blackfeet postal worker in Great Falls who left the reservation and married outside it after the hunt; guilt over the pregnant elk he was forced to kill resurfaces as visions that unravel his marriage and his grip on reality.

• Cassidy Sees Elk

  Also called Cass; the one of the four friends who stays on the reservation and tries to build a stable life — a steady job, savings, a relationship with Jo — while the past catches up with him.

• Gabriel Cross Guns

  Known as Gabe; a Blackfeet man with a troubled reputation on the reservation who pins his own redemption on his daughter Denorah's basketball talent.