| John |
Alderman | Leader and guide for colonists |
| Isabella |
Alvarez | Special agent; Foster's partner. Aka: Good Cop |
| Tad |
Bishop | Camp Quahog's camp director |
| Bob |
Calder | Police officer |
| Pete |
Daweson | Luna's former captive |
| Brian |
Foster | Special agent. Aka: Bad Cop |
| Robert |
Frost | American poet |
| John |
Gast | Painter of "American Progress" |
| April |
Hammer | Bead seller |
| Jo |
Mankiller | Syd's boss |
| Katelynn |
Matheson | Member of the Founders Society |
| Murphy |
Matheson | Katelynn's son |
| Oliver |
Matheson | Founders Society president |
| Tally |
Matheson | Katelynn's daughter |
| Gracie |
Myers | Luna's daughter |
| Luna |
Myers | Syd's best friend |
| Darren |
Nootau | Shawna's father; tribe's lawyer |
| Julia |
Nootau | Naomi's mother |
| Naomi |
Nootau | Shawna's cousin; missing |
| Shawna |
Nootau | Syd's former BIA associate |
| Morgan |
North | Guest professor from Oxford |
| Ellis |
Reed | BIA tribal contact |
| Bud |
Russell | Syd's former boss |
| Major |
Talcott | Leader of the Connecticut cavalry |
| Mallory |
Walker | Syd's wife. Aka: Mal |
| Mercy |
Walker | Syd's aunt |
| Syd |
Walker | Narrator and protagonist |
| Dursten |
Wilkes | Naomi's boyfriend |
| Frank |
Wilkes | Dursten's father |
| Linda |
Wilkes | Dursten's mother |
| Ama |
| Syd's grandmother |
| Elaine |
| Naomi's friend |
| Elise |
| Ninth-grade student |
| Joey |
| Store stockman |
| Johnny Cakes |
| Sometimes called Jonathan Oakley; the tribe's cook. Aka: Jonathan Oakley |
| Les |
| Tad's colleague; guard |
| Melody |
| Murder victim |
| Micks |
| Olin's twin sister |
| Olin |
| Ninth-grade student |
| Red Bird |
| Naomi's grandmother |
| Sherry |
| Chef |
| Squanto |
| Historical Native American figure |
| Trenton |
| Friend of Dursten |
