Chief Dan Bear Claws is an elderly Lakota chief of Kayda Franks' tribe, living in the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. A Shaman encouraged him to try to get Kayda to leave Whateley Academy and return to his tribe so she can be controlled. He has an unknown agent that has contacts at Whateley that are trying to drive her out of the school. He appears in many of Kayda's chapters on the phone to either the Shaman or his contact.