Slick Nakai is a born-again revivalist who trades in Jesus and illegal pottery.

Graham Greene is a well-known actor who gained fame as Kicking Bird, friend and mentor to Kevin Costner, in Dances with Wolves. A full-blooded Oneida, Greene was born on the Six Nations Reserve in Ontario, Canada. Prior to Dances with Wolves, he had appeared in several feature films, including Revolution with Al Pacino, Running Brave costarring Robby Benson, and Powwow Highway with Gary Farmer. Greene has appeared frequently on TV series such as L.A. Law, Northern Exposure, and Murder, She Wrote, and TV specials like Where the Spirit Lives for PBS' American Playhouse and The Last of His Tribe for HBO. Although he has found worldwide success, Greene remains active in the Toronto theater community, where he appears in many productions.

In Hillerman's Words:
"The sound of music came from the tent. A surprising amount of music, as if a band were playing. Over that an amplified male voice leading a hymn. Time to go in.... The band proved to be two men, Slick Nakai, standing behind what seemed to be a black plastic keyboard, and a thin guitarist in a blue checked shirt and a gray felt hat. Nakai was singing, his mouth a quarter inch from a stand-mounted microphone, his hands maintaining a heavy rhythm on the keyboard.... He was a short man sturdily built, neat and tidy, with small round hands, small feet in neat cowboy boots, a round intelligent face. He walked with the easy grace of a man who walks a lot. "

A Thief of Time, Chapter 4