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Bill Davis

- Bf of Edwin's mom - doesn't really like Edwin - went to jail for stabbing a man - works at colleseum - at powwow looking for Edwin - got shot while on the phone with Karen - shot above the eye and killed while looking for Edwin/ on the phone with Karen

Character List

Characters are all listed with a brief description

Daniel Gonzales

• 30 prints guns + sells to octavio -brother (Manny) is dead u emails him life updates -W/ gun money, he buys drone, ur set, and gives mom $3,000 - drone goes to powwow - watches shooting on VR

Edwin Black

- 30s - addicted to internet -obese - has a degree - got paid internship at Indian center - father is Harvey - reaches out to father and finds out that he is Chyanne - make up a story about an Indian getting scammed by white roommate - dad is at powwow and Edwin gets to meet Harvey - Edwin black was shot in the stomach and blue brought him to the hospital

Powwows

- Orvil wanted to compete brought brothers loother and lony thought opal didnt know - Tony rides a train in regalia to the Powow part of shooting plot - Blues been planning the powow for a year with edwin as help, when edwin goes to say hi to harvey his dad blue sees jacquie and knows shes her mom - Dene makes a little makeshift story telling booth outside the powow for his documentry - Opal went to the powow even though the boys did know she was - Edwin helps to set up for the powwow, meets dad, tells odd story about assimilation to blue on the way to the powow - Calvin part of robbing plan but also works for the powwow gives them inside info over breakfast - Daniel not allowed to go to the powow by octavio flys the drone over, 3d printed the guns - jacquie goes with harvey excited when she sees orvils name - Octavio break charecter with nervousness going though the metal detectors -Thomas playing drums at powow -Lony likes powow music -Daniel watching everything from drone - Blue is suspicious of guys by the safe (who would rob a powow?) - Denes booth hit by stray bullet - Orvil gets shot and hears shots trys to run - while calvin is trying to rob the safe charlos turns on octavio an everyone starts shooting - Thomas frank is in denail about the shits (inoccent dies) - bill trys to find edwin and call karen (dies) - Opal finds Lony and Loother not Orvil - Jaquie spots orvil while hidding with harvey and runs to him jacquie gets him to opal and the boys - blue takes edwin to the hospital and Opal takes Orvil - Tony has a final showdown with Charles

Blue

- Result of Harvey raping Jacquie - raised in oakiand hills (fancy suburb) moved to Oaklahoma • Cheyenne tribe - marries her boss->when boss' dad dies, he becomes abusive —> blue runs away -while running away, friend saw her and told husband had to escape secretly Paul chased her • Adoptive name: crystal Cheyenne name: Blue vapor of life • Nicuname: Blue -moved to oakland to find out more About family, history - meets Edwin at Indian center -does not like Edwin's story - introduced to Harvey and Jacquie (realizes its her mom) -

Thomas Frank

- eczema + heart condition - drunk drummer - drinks b/c of skin condition - lost job b/c smells like alcohol -embarassed /annoyed how Indian he was -no connection to other characters was asked to attend powwow to drum - shot in throat - Reaches "the State"

Octavio Gomez

- lives @ his grandma's house - brother+uncle stole drugs their house was attacked and his father got shot protecting him - Octavio gets closer too and kinda takes care of his cousins - his cousins had an abusive father and he saved them - brother and mom were killed by his stupid drunk driving uncle sixto - get guns though security - gets guns through security - other robbers turn on him - shot by Carlos

Dene Oxendene

- tags graffiti "lens" likes the adrenaline rush - uncle started a film project, but died - Dene continues the film project stared by his uncle Lucas - was gifted the camera by his uncle Lucas - was told his area is dirt cheap proposes film idea & gets grant - has a camera booth at powwow - booth takes a bullet and saves him - sees the shooters (Calvin and tony)

Tony Loneman

-21 - from Oakland - physical deformities (fetal alc syndrome) - doesn't drink (got enough in the womb) - lives with grandma Maxine - drug dealer - involved with Octavio - part of robbing plan - brings the bullets and sneaks them in by throwing them in the bushes - encounter with lady on train about regalia - backed out of robbing plan - showdown with charles shot and killed by charles (sacrifice)

Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield

-This character is, along with her sister, taken to Alcatraz by their mom(evicted/ Indian protests) -Her Teddy Bear is her "imaginary friend" (two shoes) (helps her cope with difficult subjects relates Indians and bear mistreatment) - doesn't share culture with kids - learning about heritage is a right of passage and privilege for when they are older - opal is superstitious - used to date and be in love with Lucas Dane's uncle - needs glasses but likes the blur of people - sister of Jacquie

Orvil Red Feather

-hit in the stomach with a stray bullet - lives with opal, loother, Lony -uses Lucas's old regalia - wants to learn about being native - uses internet to learn things about being native and how to powwow dance - brothers were abused and neglected by their mother Jamie - shares mothers overdose story on Dene's camera - @ powwow he feels like his construes is inferior to the others

Calvin Johnson

-lives with sisters - owes money to Carlos -was taken to octavio & was demanded money -brother: Charles (carlos' friend) - history of bipolar "going to rob pow wow - doesn't really know his native identity - shot in hip

Jacquie red feather

-rebellious @alcatraz -raped by Harvey+ gets pregnant -Opal's half sister meels harvey at drug abuse conference -tempted to drink, but doesn't give in - 10 days sober feels like years - talked about rape experience in-front of Harvey (support group) - drinking is a distraction -spiders - assaulted by Ronald - opal and her ran away - sees Orvil at powwow and helps save him

Dene and film making

All in the name of uncle lucas, graffite name lens wanted to see the world though a lens, let his content direct the vision, interviewed native americans and payed them with grant money, documentry

Setting

All the charecters are connected by Oakland, and the big Oakland powwow, other settings are: Alcatraz, Oakland hills, Oklahoma, conference in Arizona.

Prologue

King phillips war, indians wronged, indian heads, urbanization meant to be jarring to the reader uses violence and harsh history

Interlude

Powwows are uniting for Indians (needed something intertribal, old uniting), goes into all the different types of people and tribes and Indians attending the powwow, talks about blood and relates it to mess when it comes out, Native blood quantum means that if you have a certain amount of native blood you are not eligible to the same rights as white people, When you leave a wound unattended it gets infected, Sadam Hussain commissioned a Quran to be written in his blood the making was a sin the destruction as a sin(lose lose), relates ancestors to if you were born into this family you are on the yacht and if not you are one of the unlucky people effected by slavery or genocides and stuff, Indians were given last names for white people to keep track of them didnt have them before thats why they are named after colors and objects and nature things, the part about Apparent death foreshadows the powwow shooting.