Who is Lewis A. Clark from the novel, The Only Good Indians?

Lewis A. Clark is a Blackfeet Native American. Ten years before the main narrative, he was part of the hunting group that trespassed on a restricted area and illegally shot elk. Lewis left the Blackfeet reservation after his hunting privileges were revoked. At the time of the main narrative, he works at a U.S. post office in Montana, and he is married to a white woman named Peta. Lewis begins to have paranoid hallucinations about elk. He feels a deep sense of guilt about killing elk ten years ago, especially since one was a young, pregnant female. The elk spirit incites and stokes this paranoia. Lewis kills Shaney—a woman apparently possessed by the elk spirit. The elk spirit also arranges the death of Lewis’ wife Peta to look like Lewis perpetrated that as well. Local vigilantes then kill Lewis.