In the book, Junior’s best friend on the reservation. Rowdy is a star basketball player for the Wellpinit high school on the reservation. Rowdy gets abused at home and is known as a bully on the reservation. Rowdy’s father beat on him and his mother in drunk rage. Rowdy wear buries as if they were war badges to display his toughness. Due to the stress of the abused that Rowdy faced in his household, he develops maladaptive violent temper. His behavior is common for children whom faced physical trauma in their lives. He tries to harm other people to take away his own pain that he has inside of him. In the book, Junior develops a crush on the school's most popular white girl, Penelope. Penelope is the all-American girl who is intelligent student,
