Willie Jack Sampson

## Wilhelmina Jacqueline Sampson

**Willie Jack Sampson** is one of the Reservation Dogs.

## History

### Stealing the Chip Truck and Memorial for Daniel

Willie Jack, along with Elora, Bear, and Cheese, watched as a truck driver left his truck to make a delivery. While he was inside, the four of them stole the truck and drove away in it. While Elora drove and Bear rode in the wrong, Willie Jack and Cheese rode in the back, where they failed to pull in the ramp before Elora took off. They drove the truck to the salvage yard, where they sold it to Kenny Boy, who sold them all the chips inside for a dollar.

They sold the chips in Bear's front yard. While they were selling the chips, they noticed three teens watching them from across the street. While they were collecting the money they'd made, Big drove up and asked if they knew anything about a chip truck that was stolen in town. They all pretended they didn't know anything about it. He told them about a recent increase in crime and listed several things they'd done. He also tried to scare them by mentioning that the Deer Lady had been spotted in the area recently.

Once they finished selling their chips, they decided to grab a bite to eat at Rob-n-Cleo's. On the way, Elora said she believed they'd be able to relocate to California in two months, which surprised them. While they were walking, a car drove up beside them, carrying the same teens who had been watching them. Those teens pulled out their guns and began shooting paintballs at the four of them, then said that street was their territory. Once of their paintballs knocked Bear unconscious.

When Bear woke up, Mose and Mekko rode up and told them the new teens were calling themselves the NDN Mafia, consisting of Jackie, her cousins Bone Thug Dog and Weeze, and their friend White Steve. Mose and Mekko had told the NDN Mafia that the four of them were the Reservation Bandits, the toughest in town. They warned the four of them to be careful.

At Rob-n-Cleo's, they ordered catfish. After their food was delivered, they overheard Miles, a truck driver, talking to Rob about how his truck had been stolen. As a result, he'd been fired and his wife left him.

On their way back to the hideout, Bear said he felt bad for what they did to the driver and wanted to get the truck back to give it back to him. Willie Jack and Elora didn't feel bad and got mad that Bear did. Elora stormed off after saying they didn't owe anyone in that town anything.

The next day, Elora gave Bear her share of the money to buy the truck back from Kenny Boy. Unfortunately, they learned that Kenny Boy had already stripped it.

The four of them held a memorial for Daniel to mark one year since his death. As they left the memorial, the NDN Mafia drove buy, showing that they'd stolen copper that the four of them were planning to steal. They walked home and Mose and Mekko warned them that the NDN Mafia was after rhyme and they'd given the four of them a new name: The Reservation Dogs. Elora wanted to gather the money they had saved and leave right away, but Bear said he didn't want to let Jackie and her crew chase them out of town. He wanted them to become vigilantes.

### Selling Meat Pies

Willie Jack made meat pies and set up a table outside the NDN clinic to sell them. When Elora started having stomach pains, Willie Jack asked if Old Man Fixico, who had set up his table next to theirs, had anything. He told her no, so she told Elora she'd have to go into the clinic. At the end of the day, Willie Jack reported that they'd made $50. Just then, the NDN Mafia drove up. The two groups went face to face, goading each other, until Rita Smallhill broke it up.

### Learning from Brownie

Elora, Willie Jack, and Bear decided to go find Elora's Uncle Brownie to teach them to fight. On their way, they found a deer that had been hit by a car and loaded it into the trunk to make backstrap. Then they drove out to Uncle Brownie's place in the woods to find him. Willie Jack also had a bag of Jackie's hair and hoped to get Brownie to put a curse on Jackie with it. They were immediately creeped out by Brownie's place and when he spotted them, he told them to leave because it wasn't safe for children to be there. They reluctantly started to leave, but stopped when he celebrated after finding a jar he'd previously buried. He told them it was weed he'd buried fifteen years prior. He agreed to give them some fighting tips in exchange for them driving him around town to sell his weed. They did so, but no one was interested in buying it. Finally, he realized he knew who would want it. He had the kids take him to the bar where he'd knocked out twenty people and one cop in two minutes. They were not happy to see him initially and told them that it was actually thirty people and two cops. But when Brownie offered them the weed and Elora sweetened the deal with some backstrap, they welcomed him back in.

### Wellness Fair

Bear learned that his father was coming back to Oklahoma for the anti-diabetes Wellness Fair, so he recruited the other Rez Dogs to help him get things ready to see his dad again. At the grocery store, he sent each of them to get a different thing.

Bear wanted to get his father a gift, so they went next to Auntie B, who does beadwork. She offered him a steep discount because he was Willie Jack's friend. None of the pieces were what he was looking for, so he asked if she could make him a new one. She agreed, but charged an extra $50 for the rush job, which irritated Elora. Bear promised he'd make the money back.

The next morning, they picked up the medallion and were surprised to see how phallic it looked, a trend among her work. Bear took it anyway and continued to prepare for his father's visit. When Punkin didn't show up and lied about why, Bear and Rita ended up back at their home, watching Godzilla with the other Rez Dogs.

### Hunting with Leon

Willie Jack woke up early one morning with the intent of going hunting and finally shooting a large buck she and Daniel had named Chunk before she and the other Rez Dogs left for California. She made coffee, printed a picture of Chunk, and woke Leon, telling him it was the first day of the season. He tried to tell her he wasn't interested, but got up to get ready anyway. As they drove to the woods, Leon gave Willie Jack some driving advice, which she'd already heard before. Finally, he pulled over and they got out, climbing over a fence with a "No Trespassing" sign. Willie Jack said she wouldn't always be around and they needed to get more hunts in. Leon asked where she was going, but before she could answer, they heard shots in the distance and decided they should have some earlier.

As they walked through the woods, they heard more shots. They found a place to settle in and Willie Jack put red face paint on her face, which she said was for good luck. Leon scoffed at that, saying there were chemicals in the paint, but ended up wearing some of his own. Then he asked her again about leaving and she told him she and her friends were going to California. It was something Daniel wanted to do before he died. Leon didn't believe that California could be better than Oklahoma and said anything she could do in California, she could do at home. She asked him why he never left and he said that everything was there, his family and friends. Lots of people left, but came right back because it was all they knew. While they talked, they heard rustling and immediately jumped to attention. They were disappointed to see a turkey instead of a deer. They tried to scare it off, but it wouldn't leave. Willie Jack was worried it would scare Chunk away and showed Leon the picture when he said he didn't remember Chunk. He questioned where she got the picture and she said it came from his trail cam. He didn't have a trail cam and he said it probably belonged to the owners. Willie Jack was surprised that they didn't own the land. Leon said they used to, but his grandfather sold it in the 30s. Some Texas ranchers bought it a few years ago, but Leon never saw them around, so he started hunting there. But if Willie Jack saw a trail cam, either they were back or there were poachers.

Willie Jack led Leon to where the trail cam was. On the way, Leon asked Willie Jack why she wanted to leave. Willie Jack told him Daniel wanted to leave and she wondered if he'd still be alive if he had. Leon apologized for how he'd been for the last year, saying he missed Daniel and wished he were still around. When they got to the camera, they tried to remove it from the tree, but had difficulty. They stopped when they heard the ranchers nearby talking. Luckily, the ranchers didn't see them. Leon then told Willie Jack that the previous year, he'd come to the woods to put out corn to attract the deer and he saw a being covered in fur. He was sure it was Tall Man. It scared him so much, he quit hunting until Willie Jack dragged him out. After telling Willie Jack this story, he told her that if she felt like she needed to leave, she had his support. They hugged and cried over missing Daniel, but pulled apart when they heard rustling nearby. It was Chunk. Willie Jack aimed and fired her gun. Then they loaded Chunk into Leon's truck.

Back at home, Willie Jack visited Daniel's grave and told him they'd finally gotten Chunk. She also said that everyone wanted to go to California, but it was hard to think about leaving everyone in Oklahoma. She couldn't understand how he did it, but wasn't mad at him anymore.

### Tornado

The day the Rez Dogs were meant to leave for California was also Willie Jack's parents' anniversary. She knew her dad had forgotten, so she stole a gift card for dinner for two at the casino buffet and quietly slipped it to him so he could give it to her mom.

Later, she was walking with the other Rez Dogs when Brownie approached and told them a tornado was coming. He could stop it, but he needed an ax. They didn't believe him, so he said they were wasting his time and rode off.

They went to the hideout and counted out the money one last time. Willie Jack said she wasn't going. Elora and Bear got mad at her, but she said they were still friends and she gave them her share of the money to help them on their way. Bear said that Spirit had visited him again and said they had unfinished business, which he took to mean they needed to fight the NDN Mafia. Willie Jack though that the ancestors were telling them to do something and they needed to honor that.

They ended up finding the NDN Mafia and the two groups began taunting each other. This continued until Cheese noticed that a tornado was coming. They paused for a moment, then started fighting again until hail started to fall, forcing them to seek shelter in the church basement, where the taunting continued.

While they were in the basement, Willie Jack asked everyone to stand up. Then she told them it was her parents' anniversary and they were good parents, not just to her, but also Daniel and all their friends. They hadn't been happy since Daniel died, but she couldn't blame them for that because she wasn't happy either. She said she was going to stick around because she had so much left to learn from them.

After the storm passed, they went outside to find the tornado had missed their town completely. When Elora stomped off, Bear said it was his fault because he said some things he shouldn't have. He, Willie Jack, and Cheese all hugged goodbye and Willie Jack asked him to send them pictures of the ocean.

### Reversing the Curse

Willie Jack became convinced the curse she'd had put on Jackie had turned around on her. She, Bear, and Cheese went to their hideout to find that someone had bought it and it was being torn down. They took Daniel's things with them and went to Brownie's place, where they asked him to help with the curse. HE refused and told Willie Jack to go back to the person who did the curse.

Willie Jack and Bear went to the bar and asked the white wizard to undo the curse. He refused, saying he was just the intercessor. He also didn't have Jackie's hair to give back to her.

Willie Jack went back to Auntie B to get more hair, but since she had customers, she denied ever giving her hair in the first place, prompting Bucky to sweep up his own hair. As they left, Bucky pulled up beside them and offered them copper figurines to carry. Then he said to come with him and he'd help them break the curse. They needed something of Jackie's to start with. He took them to the IHS clinic, where Willie Jack asked Jackie's aunt Bev, but Bev refused to help. As they continued on, Bear had Bucky pull over and got out, saying he couldn't be part of what she was doing.

Willie Jack and Bucky continued to drive around until they came across Jackie's friends, who were able to give them some of Jackie's things. Brownie and Cheese joined them then and Brownie and Bucky first faced off over some old beef between the two of them, then agreed they'd meet at the river the next morning.

The next morning, Brownie and Bucky led Willie Jack and Cheese through the process of reversing the curse. Then they threw her things in the river and sang Free Fallin'. After the song was over, Brownie told them the curse was lifted, but they needed to stop being shitasses.

### Mabel's Death

Willie Jack came to Mabel's house when she learned Mabel was dying. She was upset when Jackie showed up and didn't help cook. When Jackie admitted she'd never made frybread, Willie Jack called her a city girl.

Later, Teenie asked if Willie Jack if she had a snag. Willie Jack said no, that she couldn't be tamed.

### NARDS Youth Summit

Willie Jack attended the NARDS Youth Summit because she heard they were giving out Sonic gift cards. When Elora came in after her with Jackie, Willie Jack moved down one seat to get away from her.

Willie Jack was paired with White Steve to do a potato dance together while they held a potato between their foreheads. They danced for a while, but dropped their potato. She told Cheese they would have won if they were together.

At lunch, Willie Jack sat with MissM8tri@rch and asked her where she was from. MissM8tri@rch told her that her body grew up in the Bay Area, but her spirit lives with her ancestors. She was also planning to go home soon to make a documentary about the youth who didn't have a fighting chance. Willie Jack told her Bear made documentaries sometimes and MissM8tri@rch said she'd like to put that in her documentary.

Willie Jack and Cheese were paired together for an activity where one person guided another, blindfolded person through a maze. Instead of guiding Cheese through the maze, she guided him to a vending machine to buy some snacks. Once they finished that, MissM8tri@rch called Jackie and Willie Jack forward to do a trust fall. Willie Jack promised to catch Jackie despite the tension between them, but then let her drop, saying it was revenge for jumping Bear. Then she made a joke about Jackie's brother, leading Jackie to leave the room. Bone Thug Dog informed her that Jackie's brother had died.

Willie Jack found Jackie at the desk and apologized for what she did. She didn't know Jackie lost a brother and understood why Jackie acted solid all the time. Jackie told Willie Jack to watch her back and left.

### Cheese's Arrest

Willie Jack and Bear were selling Flaming Flamers in front of Bear's house when Jackie rode up on her bike and told them Cheese had been arrested. Jackie went to leave, but Willie Jack stopped her and offered her one free punch to make things right between them. Jackie faked out a punch and told Willie Jack they were good. The three of them then went to Elora's to pick her up.

The four of them went to the group home. While Elora distracted [[Gene] at the door, the others went to a window and tried to get Cheese to come out to them. He told them to find a different way to get him out.

After Grandma Irene was named Cheese's new legal guardian and he was released from the group home to move into her house, they all welcomed him home with "Free Cheese" shirts.

### Midstreamers

Willie Jack, Bear, Elora, and Cheese were eating catfish and watching TV when a news report came on about the Midstreamers, who fornicated with catfish. All four of them were put off their food.

### Visiting Hokti

One day at school, Willie Jack's teacher Mrs. Fixico passed out letters to the class that they had written to themselves as freshmen, telling of their dreams and goals. In addition to her own letter, which expressed her desire to be a wizard, Mrs. Fixico gave her Daniel's letter.

Willie Jack decided to take the letter and visit Hokti, Daniel's mother, who was in jail. While she waited at the jail, she met Tupelo, who told her that visiting was the best thing she could do for someone in jail.

When Hokti entered the visiting room, she and Willie Jack hugged awkwardly, then sat down. Willie Jack updated her on everyone back home and said her parents tried to talk her out of coming. After some more small talk, Willie Jack pulled out an envelope which contained a letter Daniel had written to his future self as a freshman. Hokti said she didn't want it and Willie Jack asked if she could read it to her. She hadn't read it herself yet. Hokti wasn't interested and said that's why no one in the family was on her visitors list. Looking at them just reminded her of Daniel. When the conversation stalled, Hokti indicated that food often helped people open up and gestured to the vending machines. Willie Jack got up and got them snacks.

When she came back with the snacks, Willie Jack explained that Elora and Bear weren't speaking to each other and Cheese almost never hung out with them anymore. Hokti said sometimes friends grow apart, but Willie Jack knew that wasn't it. They were all shrouded in darkness since Daniel died. Hokti decided to pray with Willie Jack, calling on their ancestors for help. When they finished, she said she'd spent a lot of time trying to fix Danny, but learned you can't love someone out of hurting themselves. She told Willie Jack to create the space for her friends and it would work or it wouldn't. She reminded her also that food helped people open up. As Willie Jack got up to leave, Hokti told her to take the letter, as it had made its way to her.

Willie Jack invited her friends over and cooked for them. They sat in silence until Willie Jack told them she'd visited Hokti and she got her advice for how to fix them. Bear and Elora immediately claimed that everything was fine between them, but Cheese and Willie Jack knew that wasn't true. She told them about Daniel's letter and said she wanted to read it with them. They passed it around and read it to themselves. When they were finished, they decided to fulfill Daniel's dream together, because he couldn't.

### Trip to California

With the decision made, The Rez Dogs, with Jackie's help, went to steal Mabel's car back form the scrapyard. Kenny Boy interrupted them, but let them have the car anyway. They packed up the car and left for California. They were all excited to fulfill Daniel's dream for him. They thought about what they would do when they got to the ocean and Bear suggested putting Daniel's letter in, because it was like a piece of Daniel and he'd alway wanted to go to the ocean.

Over the next few days, they made their way across the country to California. With only a few miles left, they stopped at a taco place and got food. When they went to pay, Bear realized they left the money in the car. Willie Jack went to get it, but found the car missing. While they stood outside in the empty lot and discussed what to do, White Jesus found them and said he'd take them to the ocean. Instead, he led them to an encampment and promised to take him to the ocean in the morning. They decided to stay and sleep in shifts, which they did until the cops came and forced them to leave.

They decided to continue their walk on their own. They were delighted when they finally heard the sounds of the ocean in the distance, which encouraged them to walk the final stretch. Once on the beach, they looked out into the ocean for a moment and then walked toward the water. Elora held back, saying she didn't want to say goodbye to Daniel. Bear corrected that they were only saying goodbye to the pain. They all walked into the water together. Cheese said a prayer and they held each other, imagining Daniel standing with them. Then Cheese asked what they should do next. Elora said she wanted to find her car because she had to take it back to Kenny Boy's. Willie Jack said she had an uncle at a rez nearby who could probably help. Bear then said he wasn't going back to Oklahoma.

### Return to Okern

While they were in LA, Bear insisted on going to see Punkin to give him the beadwork even after Punkin didn't answer his phone call. He was surprised when a woman answered the door and said that Punkin had left to go on tour, leaving the woman alone with two kids, presumably Bear's half-siblings. After leaving Punkin's, they found White Jesus again and waited with him while Teenie traveled to Los Angeles to pick them up.

From there, they went to the bus station and boarded a bus to Amarillo. On the bus, Willie Jack saw Cheese drawing and asked him about it, as she didn't know he could draw. In turn, he asked her if she ever thought about Elora and Bear leaving, as he did. As the youngest, he thought about all of them leaving. She said that Bear and Elora would probably leave, but she wouldn't.

In Amarillo, they got off and waited until it was time to board the bus to Okern. Upon arriving in Okern, they were greeted by their families. Leon hugged Willie Jack and told her she was grounded.

### Punishment

All the Rez Dogs plus Jackie were brought to the IHS to be punished. They were all assigned to clean at the IHS. Willie Jack and Cheese were assigned to clean the graffiti penis outside the entrance, which upset Willie Jack as it was her work. While they were scrubbing, Willie Jack became interested in Old Man Fixico's work and asked him about it. He told her he was going to die and had no one to pass his work onto, so she told him she was interested. After talking to her, he agreed to teach her his trade. She sat with him for the rest of the day until her friends finished their work and they left together.

### Cheese's Withdrawal

Willie Jack, Bear, and Elora became concerned when Cheese started making excuses through his grandma not to hang out with them. When they went to get him one day and were told he was sick, they asked Irene to tell him they missed him. Later that day, Cheese called them from his camping trip and had them join.

### Work with Fixico

Willie Jack continued to visit Fixico to learn from him. One day, when Rita came in looking rough, Fixico indicated for Willie Jack to help her. Willie Jack gave her some Flamin' Flamers, which she promised would fix Rita right up. Fixico agreed.

### Retrieving Maximus

When Fixico collapsed and had a heart attack at Elder Breakfast, Willie Jack went to the other teens and proposed they go get Fixico's estranged cousin out of the psychiatric hospital where he was staying. They got a bus from Kenny Boy and took off for Tulsa where they executed their plan to distract the staff and sneak him out. Willie Jack and Bear went into the hospital together to find Maximus and bring him out. When they found him, they were surprised to learn he was the same person that Bear had met on his trip home. He initially didn't want to go with them because he didn't want to make up with Fixico, but agreed to go and said they didn't need to bust him out because he was free to leave at any time. They asked him to pretend anyway and he did. They got him back out to the bus and left. On the way home, the bus started smoking and Kenny Boy told everyone to get off. They did and just as they were off, the bus burst into flames. When they got home, Maximus and Fixico were reunited at Fixico's bedside. When Big found out what they'd done, he brought them all in for interrogations, though he didn't believe Willie Jack when she told him the truth. At the end of the day, Kenny Boy took full responsibility and claimed the kids weren't even there.

### Elora's College Application

Willie Jack and the other Rez Dogs went to University of Oklahoma to support Elora while she filled out paperwork and met with admissions to learn her options for going to school. When Debbie told Elora she needed her father's financial information to get financial aid, they all suggested she just go look for him. After thinking about it, Elora decided to do that.

## Personality

She is wise beyond her years. She marches to the beat of her own drum and is not bothered by what people think, always staying true to who she is. She's the beating heart of the group and watches out for everyone.

## Appearances

 **#02** | "NDN Clinic"
 **#03** | "Uncle Brownie"

## References

1. ↑ F\*ckin' Rez Dogs, 1x01
2. ↑ NDN Clinic, 1x02
3. ↑ Uncle Brownie, 1x03
4. ↑ What About Your Dad, 1x04
5. ↑ Hunting, 1x06
6. ↑ Satvrday, 1x08
7. ↑ The Curse, 2x01
8. ↑ Run, 2x02
9. ↑ Mabel, 2x04
10. ↑ Decolonativization, 2x06
11. ↑ Stay Gold Cheesy Boy, 2x07
12. ↑ This is Where the Plot Thickens, 2x08
13. ↑ Offerings, 2x09
14. ↑ I Still Believe, 2x10
15. ↑ BUSSIN', 3x01
16. ↑ Friday, 3x04
17. ↑ Frankfurter Sandwich, 3x06
18. ↑ Wahoo!, 3x07
19. ↑ Send It, 3x08
20. ↑ Elora's Dad, 3x09
21. ↑ California Dreamin', 1x07