ARISTOTLE JOSEPH, played by Gene Tagaban

Aristotle Joseph was born on October 12, 1968, Columbus Day. His mother, Vivian, was 5/8 Spokane Indian and 3/8 white, though there are rumors her real father was a Filipino sailor, which if true, would make Aristotle 1/4 Filipino and 1/4 Spokane on his mother's side, but, no matter the paternal rumors, Vivian claims only the blood of the man who raised her, George, who was 3/4 white and only 1/4 Spokane Indian, and since Vivian's mother, Sara, was a full-blood Spokane, that makes Aristotle 5/16 Spokane and 3/16 white on his mother's side. On his father's side, Aristotle gets 1/4 Colville blood, 1/8 Yakama, and 1/8 Flathead, which means that all together, when rounding up to the next whole number, Aristotle is approximately 31 percent Spokane, 25 percent Colville, 19 percent white, 13 percent Yakama, and 13 percent Flathead, and that adds up to 101 percent, which confuses the issue a bit, though what's really confusing is that Earl's three tribes are really confederated, meaning they're made up of a bunch of different tribes that now identify themselves by one tribal name.

The Colville are really nine different tribes, the Yakamas are 14 different tribes, and the Flatheads are also known as the Salish/Kootenai, though some of the Salish/Kootenai insist on being called Flathead and some of the Flatheads insist on being called Salish/Kootenai. So it's quite possible that in addition to being Spokane, Colville, Yakama, and Flathead, Aristotle could have the blood of 25 other Indian tribes. And that's not even considering the fact that Aristotle's white blood is mostly likely French and/or Russian, considering those were the two dominant white races that settled the Pacific Northwest, though there were certainly plenty of other white settlers from about a hundred and seventy-two other countries. Additionally, Aristotle's grandmother, Sara, was not actually full-blood Spokane, but was, in fact, mostly Flathead Indian, with only the rumor of Spokane Indian blood. She was enrolled as a Spokane Indian only because she happened to be living on the Spokane Indian Reservation at the time many of the Spokanes were originally enrolled in the tribe. This would mean, ironically, that Aristotle, an enrolled Spokane Indian, who was born on the Spokane Indian Reservation and has lived there all of his life, aside for the two years he attended and flunked out of St. Jerome the Second University in Seattle, Washington, might not have any Spokane Indian blood at all.