The Justice Trilogy

The family tree below is both too large and too small. It represents most, but not all, familial relations between the characters in Louise Erdrich’s Justice Trilogy (The Plague of Doves, The Round House, La Rose). Not all characters are present in this chart, simply because not all characters are related. 

For instance, Father Travis Wozniak, who appears both in The Round House and LaRose, and plays a major role in both novels, does not appear on this chart, because he is a priest who is send to the Little No Horse Reservation from another state and is therefore an isolated outsider in terms of familial relations. Others, like Lulu Nanapush—on the far left side of the chart—is mentioned only once, offhandedly, but is represented on the chart, because her familial connection is explicitly mentioned. 

For the most part, the core of this family tree reveals how most major characters across the trilogy are related and how, therefore, the stories are intertwined. In the pages on the individual books below, you can still consult the information about the “isolated” characters and possibly their own smaller family trees. The chart below is meant to be consulted for a quick check-up on who, for instance, Joe’s mother was again, or how Maggie Peace and Snow Iron are related to each other, etc.