| 1 | Joe | Leaphorn | A Navajo police lieutenant. |
| | Harold | Bigman | A police detective. |
| | Louisa | Bourebonette | Joe's live-in-partner. |
| | Bernadette | Manuelito | A police officer. aka: Bernie. |
| | Howard | Largo | The chief of the Navajo police force. |
| | Jim | Chee | A police officer. Bernie's husband. |
| | Jerry | Cordova | An FBI agent. |
| | Nellie | Roanhorse | A waitress. |
| | Emma | | Joe's wife. |
| 2 | Darleen | | Bernie's sister. |
| 3 | Brandon | Wheeler | A police officer. |
| | Gloria | Bernally | The car registered owner. |
| | Jackson | Bernally | Gloria's son. |
| | Leonard | Nez | Jackson's friend. aka: Lizard. |
| 4 | Dr. John | Collingsworth | Director of the American Indian Resource Center. (AIRC). |
| | Charley | Zah | Darleen's boyfriend. |
| | Stella | Darkwater | Bernie's mother's friend. |
| 5 | Julia | Child | A chef. |
| | Delos | | Leaphorn's acquaintance. |
| | Randall | Elliot | One who killed a Utah rancher. |
| 6 | Cowboy | Dashee | Chee's friend. |
| | Dr. Grant | Moxsley | A neurologist. |
| | Hosteen | Nakai | Jim's uncle. |
| 7 | Sandra | | The office manager. |
| | Austin | Lee | Leaphorn's potential relative. aka: AL. |
| | Mark | Yazzie | A gardener. |
| | Dr. Maxie | Davis | AIRC's associate director. |
| | Marjorie | Rockwell | Collingsworth's secretary. |
| 8 | Joe | Shirley Jr. | President of the Navajo Nation. |
| | Professor | Coburn | Jackson's teacher. |
| 9 | Garrison | Tsosie | One of the suspects of Leaphorn's shoot-out. |
| | Notah | Tsosie | Garrison's brother. |
| 10 | Leo | Crowder | A store owner. |
| | Rose | | Garrison's girlfriend. |
| | Mrs. | Tsosie | Garrison's mother. |
| | Bruno | Mars | American singer-songwriter. |
| | Buddy | | Rose's boy. |
| 11 | Professor | Stuart | Bernie's favorite teacher at the university. |
| 12 | Michelle | Abernathy | A hypnotizer. |
| 13 | Rocko | Delbert | A former Navajo Police officer. |
| | Eleanor | Friedman | A professor at Arizona State. aka: Ellie. |
| | Mr. | Bernal | Ellie's ex-husband. |
| | Janelle | | The property manager at a private museum. |
| | Karen | Dundee | An artist. |
| | Andrew | Stephen | A Navajo Nation police officer. |
| | Joe | Wakara | Park security head. |
| 15 | Slim | Jacobs | Owner of the Double X Ranch. aka: SJ. |
| | Princess | | SJ's dog. |
| 16 | Tim | Morris | One of Chee's acquaintances. |
| | Richard | Wetherill | One of Chee's acquaintances. |
| | Marietta | | Wetherill's wife. |
| 18 | Reverend | Rodriguez | The hospital's chaplain. |
| | Mr. | Darkwater | Stella's husband. |
| | John | Lennon | English singer and songwriter. |
| | Yoko | Ono | Japanese artist, singer-songwriter, author, peace activist. |
| | Liv | Tyler | American actress, producer and former model. |
| | Louisa Ann | Meredith | British-Australian writer and illustrator. |
| 20 | Janis | Joplin | American singer and songwriter. |
