People of Darkness | Teaching Key Figures

Character Descriptions

This section provides a short description of all the major characters in the book. This can be printed out as a study guide for students, used as a "key" for leading a class discussion, or you can jump to the quiz/homework section to find worksheets that incorporate these descriptions into a variety of question formats.

Characters

Jim Chee - This college-educated character is a police officer with the tribal police.

Rosemary Vines - This character hires the protagonist to find a box believed to have been stolen by an Indian man.

B.J. Vines - This character discovered a large vein of uranium under the town.

Dillon Charley - This character was the leader of a peyote church and warned his people to stay away from the oil well the night before the well exploded.

Emerson Charley - This character takes over the peyote church after the church leader dies.