| 1 | Felix | Cohen | An American lawyer and scholar. |
| | Clemence | Milk | Joe's aunt. |
| | Antone Bazil | Coutts II | Narrator and Protagonist. Aka: Oops, Joe. |
| | Mooshum | | Joe's grandfather who lives in Clemence and Edward's flat. |
| | Edward | Milk | Clemence's husband. Joe's uncle. |
| | Geraldine | Coutts | Joe's mother. A tribal enrollment specialist. |
| | Antone Bazil | Coutts I | Joe's father. A chief of tribal judge. |
| | Joseph | Coutts | Joe's great-grandfather. |
| | Vince | Madwesin | A tribal police officer. Zack's step-dad. |
| | Dr. | Egge | The doctor who examined Geraldine. |
| | Whitey | | Joe's uncle. Owner of a gas station. |
| 2 | Virgil | Lafournais | Joe's closest friend. Aka: Cappy. |
| | Zack | Peace | Joe's friend. |
| | Angus | Kashpaw | Joe's friend. Aka: Starboy. |
| | Randall | Lafournais | Cappy's brother. Aka: Birkenstock. |
| | Doe | Lafournais | Cappy's bachelor father. An On-and-Off chairman of the tribe. |
| | Corwin | Peace | Zack's father. A musician. |
| | Carleen | Thunder | Zack's mother. Owner of the tribal newspaper. |
| | Star | | Angus's aunt. |
| | Elwin | | Star's husband. |
| | Worf | | A fictional character in Star Wars. |
| | James | Michener | An American author. |
| | Shamengwa | | Geraldine's late uncle. |
| | Sonja | | An ex-stripper. Whitey's wife. |
| | Joseph | | Whitey and Sonja's son. Joe's cousin. |
| | Evelina | | Whitey and Sonja's daughter. Joe's cousin. |
| | Spook | | Whitey and Sonja's horse. |
| | Pearl | | The dog Sonja gave to Joe. |
| | Suzette | | Cappy's aunt. |
| | Josey | | Cappy's aunt. |
| | Gabir | Olson | The U.S. attorney. Bazil's old friend. |
| | Ronald | Reagan | The U.S. President. |
| | Opichi | Wold | Bazil's secretary. |
| 3 | Durlin | Peace | A janitor at The Bingo Palace. |
| | Lyman | Lamartine | Durlin Peace's boss. |
| | Marilyn | Shigaag | A woman who stole five gas station hotdogs. |
| | Mervin | Ma'Ingan | An associate judge. |
| | Tommy | Thomas | The plaintiff. |
| | | | Vinland - A non-Indian-owned grocery and gas station. |
| | George | Lark | Grace's husband. Owner of Vinland. |
| | Grace | Lark | George's wife. Biological mother of Linda. |
| | Linda | Lark | George and Grace's daughter. Aka: Tuffy. |
| | Linden | Lark | George and Grace's son. |
| | Albert | Wishkob | A member of Chippewa tribe. Adoptive father of Linda. |
| | Sheryl | Wishkob | Albert and Betty's daughter. |
| | Martin | Wishkob | Albert and Betty's son. |
| | Cedric | Wishkob | Albert and Betty's son. |
| | Albert | Wishkob Jr. | Albert and Betty's son. |
| | William | Sterne | Francis's attorney. |
| | Johanna | Coeur de Bois | Attorney for the respondents. |
| | Horace | Whiteboy | Francis's brother who died in the round house. |
| | Asiginak | | The leader of the Ojibwe ceremonies. |
| 4 | Ignatia | Thunder | Zack's grandmother. Aka: Kookum. |
| | Mrs. | Bijiu | Ignatia's friend. |
| | LaRose | | Geraldine's old friend. |
| | Father | Damien | A former catholic priest. |
| | Father Travis | Wozniak | A catholic priest. A former marine. |
| 5 | Louis | Riel | A Canadian politician. |
| | Severine | | Mooshum's brother. |
| 6 | Soren | Bjerke | A special agent at the FBI. |
| | Cheryl | Wishkob | Cedric's wife. |
| 7 | Ball | | Pearl's sister. |
| | Chain | | Pearl's sister. |
| | Bugger | Pourier | Joe's neighbor. |
| 8 | Arion | of Methymna | The famous harp player. |
| | Gabir | Olson | Bazil's old friend. |
| | Curtis | Yeltow | Tanya's father. |
| | Mayla | Woflskin | A young girl who asked Geraldine to meet her at the round house. LaRose's cousin. |
| | Zelia | | A woman that Cappy's in love with. |
| | Murphy | | Sonja's daughter from her first marriage. |
| | Akiikwe | | The protagonist in Mooshum's story. |
| | Nanapush | | Akiikwe's son. |
| | Neal | | A skinny Christian guy that Joe met. |
| | Ruby | | Toast's girlfriend. |
| | Toast | | Ruby's boyfriend. |
| 9 | Anishaaindinaa | | Ignatia's old friend. |
| | Alvin | | Whitey's friend. Mooshum's son. |
| | Vance | | Alvin's younger brother. |
| | George | Wolfskin | Mayla's father. |
| | Aurora | Wolfskin | Mayla's mother. |
| | George | Washington | The 1st U.S. President. |
| | Thomas | Jefferson | The 3rd U.S. President. |
| | John | Marshall | Former chief justice of the United States. |
| | Daniel | Webster | Former United States secretary of state. |
| 10 | Dawn | | Joe's schoolmate. |
| | Shawn | | Joe's schoolmate. |
| | Margaret | | Joe's new friend in school. |
| 11 | Margaret | Nanapush | The grandmother of Margaret in Joe's school. |
| | Tanya | | Curtis and Mayla's daughter. |
